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Preprints
McLeod A., Leroux S., Little C.J., Massol F., Vander Wal E., Wiersma Y., Gounand I., Loeuille N., Harvey E. (2023) Studying the spatial structuring of chemical elements through the prism of community and landscape ecology. Authorea. DOI: 10.22541/au.167631340.0886.1447/v1
Straus S., Forbes C., Little C.J., Germain R.M., Main D.A., O’Connor M.I., Thompson P.L., Ford A.T., Gravel D., Guzman L.M. (2022). Macroecological variation in movement profiles: body size does not explain it all. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.21.489049
Peer-Reviewed Publications
38. Datry T., et al. (including Little C.J.). (2023) Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks. BioScience 73:9–22.
37. Cote J., et al. (including Little C.J.). (2023) Dispersal syndromes in challenging environments: A cross-species experiment. Ecology Letters 25:2675-2687. [d&c]
36. Gareis J.A.L., Larson E.I., Ardón M., Berges J.A., Brandt J.E., Busch K.M., Chraibi V.A.S., Gallagher E.N., Hondula K.L., Kincaid D.W., Levine T.D., Little C.J., Nodine E.R., Rock A.M., Shogren A.J.,& Vanni M.J. (2022) Using Wikipedia Assignments to Teach Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing in STEM Courses. Frontiers in Education 7:905777.
35. Little C.J.*, Rizzuto M.*, Luhring T.M., Monk J.D., Nowicki R.J., Paseka R.E., Stegen J.C., Symons C.S., Taub F.B., Yen J.D.L. (2022) Movement with meaning: Integrating information into meta-ecology. Oikos 8:e08892.
* joint first authorship
34. Soininen E.M., Barrio I.C., Bjørkås R., Björnsdóttir K., Ehrich D., Hopping K.A., Kaarlejärvi E., Kolstad A.L., Abdulmanova S., Björk R.G., Bueno C.G., Eischeid I., Finger-Higgens R., Forbey J.S., Gignac C., Gilg O., den Herder M., Holm H.S., Hwang B.C., Jepsen J.U., Kamenova S., Kater I., Koltz A.M., Kristensen J.A., Little C.J., Macek P., Mathisen K.M., Metcalfe D.B., Mosbacher J.B., Mörsdorf M., Park T., Propster J.R., Roberts A.J., Serrano E., Spiegel M.P., Tamayo M., Tuomi M.W., Verma M., Vuorinen K.E.M., Väisänen M., van der Wal R., Wilcots M.E., Yoccoz N.G. & Speed J.D.M. (2021). Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map. Environmental Evidence. 10:25.
- Data available in our Shiny app
33. Scharn R., Little C.J., Bacon C.D., Alatalo J.M., Antonelli A., Björkman M.P., Molau U., Nilsson R.H., Björk R.G. (2021) Decreased soil moisture due to warming drives phylogenetic diversity and community transitions in the tundra. Environmental Research Letters 16:064031.
32. Mackay J., Nikiforuk K., Szojka M., Little C.J., Fleri J.R., Germain R.M. (2021) Animals connect plant species and resources in a meta-ecosystem. Landscape Ecology 36:1621–1629.
- Data and code available on Zenodo
31. Gounand I., Little C.J., Harvey E., Altermatt F. (2020) Global quantitative synthesis of ecosystem functioning across climatic zones and ecosystem types. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29(7):1139-1176.
- Data from this paper is available on Zenodo; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3644247
30. Altermatt F., Little C.J., Maechler E., Wang S., Zhang X., Blackman R.C. (2020) Uncovering the complete biodiversity structure in spatial networks: the example of riverine systems. Oikos 129:607-618.
29. Thomas H.J.D., et al (including Little C.J.). (2020) Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. Nature Communications 11:1351.
- The trait database is maintained and available at the TundraTraitTeam GitHub repository
28. Little C.J., Fronhofer E.A., Altermatt F. (2020) Nonlinear Effects of Intraspecific Competition Alter Landscape-Wide Scaling-Up of Ecosystem Function. The American Naturalist 195(3):432-444.
- Data from this paper is available on Dryad; DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3124p62
27. Maechler E.*, Little C.J.*, Wuethrich R., Alther R., Fronhofer E.A., Gounand I., Harvey E., Huerlemann S., Walser J.-C., Altermatt F. (2019) Assessing different components of biodiversity across a river network using eDNA. Environmental DNA 1(3):290-301.
- * joint first authorship
- Sequencing data is on the European Nucleotide Archive with study accession numbers (secondary accession number) PRJEB31920 (ERP114535) and PRJEB33506 (ERP116301)
26. Cooper E.J., Little C.J., Pilsbacher A.K., Mörsdorf M.A. (2019) Disappearing green: Shrubs decline and bryophytes increase with nine years of increased snow accumulation in the High Arctic. Journal of Vegetation Science 30(5):857-867.
25. Von Schiller D., Datry T., … Little C.J., … et al (92 authors). (2019) Sediment Respiration Pulses in Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 33(10):1251-1263.
24. Little C.J. & Altermatt F. (2019) Differential resource consumption in leaf litter mixtures by native and non-native amphipods. Aquatic Ecology 53(2):151-162.
- Data from this paper is available on Dryad; DOI: 10.5061/dryad.v22901d
- Code for analysis is available on GitHub
23. Shumilova O., Zak D., Datry T., von Schiller D., … Little C.J., … et al. (76 authors). (2019) Simulating rewetting events in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: a global analysis of leached nutrients and organic matter. Global Change Biology 25(5):1591-1611.
22. Little C.J., Fronhofer E.A., Altermatt F. (2019) Dispersal syndromes can impact ecosystem functioning in spatially structured freshwater populations. Biology Letters 15:20180865.
- Data from this paper is available on Dryad; DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8b9j040
- Code for analysis is available on GitHub
21. Thomas H.J.D., Myers-Smith I.H., Bjorkman A.D., Elmendorf S.C., … Little C.J., … et al. (88 authors). (2019) Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome. Global Ecology & Biogeography 28(2):78-95.
- The trait database is maintained and available at the TundraTraitTeam GitHub repository
20. Gounand I., Little C.J., Harvey E., Altermatt F. (2018) Cross-ecosystem carbon flows connecting ecosystems worldwide. Nature Communications 9:4825.
19. Fronhofer E.A., Legrand D., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:1859–1863.
- Data and code are available at the Zenodo repository
- Nature Ecology & Evolution published a News and Views piece on this experiment
- You can read lead author Emanuel Fronhofer’s post on the Nature Ecology & Evolution Community blog about how the project came to fruition
- You can also read a press release from Eawag
18. Bjorkman A.D., Myers-Smith I.H., Elmendorf S.C., Normand S., … Little C.J.… et al (104 authors). (2018) Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome. Global Ecology & Biogeography 27:1402-1411.
- The trait database is maintained and available at the TundraTraitTeam GitHub repository
17. Bjorkman A.D., Myers-Smith I.H., Elmendorf S.C., Normand S., … Little C.J.… et al (129 authors). (2018) Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature 562:57-62.
- Trait data from this paper are part of the TRY database: https://www.try-db.org/
- Most community composition data is available in the BioTIME database: https://synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/biotime/biotime-database/
- Tundra Trait Team data and script to clean it is on the ShrubHub GitHub repository
- Lead author Anne Bjorkman wrote a blog post for the Nature Ecology & Evolution Community about the 20,000 hours of work it took to produce the paper
- Press coverage: BBC, Newsweek, Aftenposten, SwissInfo, UN Environment,
16. Little C.J. and Altermatt F. (2018) Landscape configuration alters spatial arrangement of terrestrial-aquatic subsidies in headwater streams. Landscape Ecology 33:1519–1531.
- Data from this paper is available on Dryad; DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j675k0j
15. Little C.J. & Altermatt F. (2018) Species turnover and invasion of dominant freshwater invertebrates alter biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship. Ecological Monographs 88:461-480.
- Data from this paper is available on Dryad; DOI: 10.5061/dryad.78g8h50
- Winner of the ESA Student Section “Outstanding Student Research” award
- Press release from Eawag about this research and the Proceedings B paper (see below): “Non-natives consume less than native species”
14. Little C.J. and Altermatt F. (2018) Do priority effects outweigh environmental filtering in a guild of dominant freshwater macroinvertebrates? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 285:20180205.
- Data from this paper is available on Dryad; DOI: 10.5061/dryad.75jq1
- My interview on the Royal Society Publishing Blog about this research: “A preprint success story: amphipod habitat”
13. Datry T., Foulquier A., Corti R., von Schiller D., … Little C.J., … Zak D., Zarfl C., & Zoppini A (94 authors). (2018) A global analysis of terrestrial plant litter dynamics in non-perennial waterways. Nature Geoscience 11:497–503.
- Data from this paper is available on Figshare; DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6078734.v2
12. Gounand I., Harvey E., Little C.J., Altermatt F. On Embedding Meta-ecosystems into a Socioecological Framework: A Reply to Renaud et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:484-486.
11. Gounand I., Harvey E., Little C.J., Altermatt F. (2018) Meta-ecosystems 2.0: Rooting the Theory into the Field. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:36-46.
10. Little C.J., Chapuis M.-P., Blondin L., Chapuis E., Jourdan-Pineau H. (2017) Exploring the relationship between tychoparthenogenesis and inbreeding depression in the Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria. Ecology & Evolution 7:6003–6011.
9. Harvey E., Gounand I., Little C.J., Fronhofer E.A., Altermatt F. (2017) Upstream trophic structure modulates downstream community dynamics via resource subsidies. Ecology & Evolution 7:5724–5731.
- Data and code from this paper is available on GitHub; link here
8. Little C.J., Cutting H.B.U., Alatalo J.M., Cooper E. (2017) Short-term herbivory has long-term consequences in warmed and ambient high Arctic tundra. Environmental Research Letters 12:025001.
- Data from this paper is available on Dryad; DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2m1k2
7. Pfeifer-Meister L., Bridgham S.D., Reynolds L.L., Goklany M.E., Wilson H.E., Little C.J., Ferguson A., Johnson B.R. (2016) Climate change alters plant biogeography in Mediterranean prairies along the West Coast, USA. Global Change Biology 22:845-855.
6. Little C.J., Wheeler J.A., Sedlacek J., Cortés A.J., Rixen C. (2016) Small-scale drivers: the importance of nutrient availability and snowmelt timing on performance of the alpine shrub Salix herbacea. Oecologia 4:1015–1024.
5. Little C.J., Jägerbrand A.K., Molau U., Alatalo J.M. (2015) Community and species-specific responses to simulated global change in two subarctic-alpine plant communities. Ecosphere 6:227.
4. Alatalo J.M., Little C.J., Jägerbrand A.K., Molau U. (2015) Vascular plant abundance and diversity in an alpine heath under observed and simulated global change. Scientific Reports 5:10197.
3. Alatalo J.M., Little C.J., Jägerbrand A.K., Molau U. (2014) Dominance hierarchies, diversity and species richness of vascular plants in an alpine meadow: contrasting short and medium term responses to simulated global change. PeerJ 2:e406
2. Alatalo J.M. and Little C.J. (2014). Simulated global change: contrasting short and medium term growth and reproductive responses of a common alpine/Arctic cushion plant to experimental warming and nutrient enhancement. SpringerPlus 3:157.
1. Pfeifer-Meister L., Bridgham S.D., Little C.J., Reynolds L., Goklany M.E., and Johnson B.R. (2013). Pushing the limit: experimental evidence of climate effects on plant range distributions. Ecology 94:2131-2137.
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