Journal articles
2026
24. MacDougall AS, …, Siewert M (145 Authors, Petit Bon M #111) (2026). The global extent of the grassland biome and implications for the terrestrial carbon sink. Accepted at Nature Ecology & Evolution.
23. Le Moullec M, Hendel A-L, Petit Bon M, Jónsdóttir IS, Varpe Ø, Van der Wal R, Beumer LT, Layton-Matthews K, Isaksen K, Hansen BB (2026). Towards rainy high Arctic winters: how experimental icing and summer warming affect tundra plant phenology, productivity, and reproduction. Accepted at Journal of Ecology.
2025
22. Kelsey KC, Leffler AJ, Petit Bon M, Barr BN, Beard KH (2025). Responding to rising waters and temperatures: Greenhouse gas flux from a high-latitude coastal wetland. Environmental Research Letters: 20(10), 104040. [Link to paper]
21. Barr BN, Kelsey KC, Leffler AJ, Petit Bon M, Beard KH (2025). Salinity and moisture influence CO2 and CH4 emissions from high-latitude coastal soils. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences: 130(7), e2024JG008629. [Link to paper]
20. Barrio IC, Vuorinen KEMV, Barbero-Palacios L, Defourneaux M, Petit Bon M, …, Kamenova S (79 Authors) (2025). Emerging priorities in terrestrial herbivory research in the Arctic. Arctic Science: 11, 1-26. [Link to paper]
19. Garcia Criado M, …, Vellend M (54 Authors, Petit Bon M #38) (2025). Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic. Nature: 642, 653-661. [Link to paper] [Link to outreach]
18. Ottaviani G, Martínez A, Petit Bon M, Mammola S (2025). On the quest for novelty in ecology. Peer Community Journal: 5, e59. [Link to paper]
17. Sarneel JM, Atkins JW, Augusto L, Barel JM, Duddigan S, Fanin N, Hefting MM, Lembrechts JJ, Marín C, McDaniel MD, Montagnani L, Mueller P, Parkhurst T, Petit Bon M, Sofo S, Keuskamp JA (2025). The assumptions of the Tea Bag Index and their implications: A reply to Mori 2025. Ecology Letters: 28(4), e70117. [Link to paper]
16. Petit Bon M, Beard KH, Bråthen KA, Lee H, Jónsdóttir IS (2025). Goose grubbing and warming suppress summer net ecosystem CO2 uptake differentially across high-Arctic tundra habitats. Ecology: 106(1), e4498. [Link to paper]
15. Schwieger S, Dorrepaal E, Petit Bon M, …, Sarneel JM (42 Authors) (2025). Environmental conditions modulate warming effects on plant litter decomposition globally. Ecology Letters: 28(1), e70026. [Link to paper]
2020-2024
14. Petit Bon M, Leffler AJ, Kelsey KC, Williams TJ, Beard KH (2024). Projected near-future flooding and warming increase graminoid biomass in a coastal high-latitude wetland. Journal of Ecology: 112(12), 2715-2730. [Link to paper; Editor’s choice]
13. Sarneel JM, …, Keuskamp JA (108 Authors, Petit Bon M #79) (2024). Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization. Ecology Letters: 27(5), e14415. [Link to paper]
12. Maes SL, …, Dorrepaal E (76 Authors, Petit Bon M #52) (2024). Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra. Nature: 629, 105-113. [Link to paper]
11. Barbero-Palacios L, Barrio IC, Garcia Criado M, Kater I, Petit Bon M, …, Soininen EM (36 Authors) (2024). Herbivore diversity effects on Arctic tundra ecosystems: A systematic review. Environmental Evidence: 13, 6. [Link to paper]
10. Petit Bon M, Hansen BB, Loonen MJJE, Petraglia A, Bråthen KA, Böhner H, Layton-Matthews K, Beard KH, Le Moullec M, Jónsdóttir IS, Van der Wal R (2023). Long-term herbivore removal experiments reveal how geese and reindeer shape vegetation and ecosystem CO2-fluxes in high-Arctic tundra. Journal of Ecology: 111(12), 2627-2642. [Link to paper] [Link to outreach]
9. Petit Bon M, Bråthen KA, Ravolainen VT, Ottaviani G, Böhner H, Jónsdóttir IS (2023). Herbivory and warming have opposing short-term effects on plant-community nutrient levels across high-Arctic tundra habitats. Journal of Ecology: 111(7), 1514-1530. [Link to paper]
8. Choi RT*, Petit Bon M*, Leffler AJ, Kelsey KC, Welker JM, Beard KH (2022). Short-term effects of experimental goose grazing and warming differ in three low-Arctic coastal wetland plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science: 33(3), e13139. [Link to paper]
7. Lembrechts JJ, …, Lenoir J (409 Authors, Petit Bon M #265) (2022). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology: 28(5), 3110-3144. [Link to paper]
6. Petit Bon M*, Inga KG*, Utsi TA, Jónsdóttir IS, Bråthen KA (2022). Forage quality in tundra grasslands under herbivory: Silicon-based defences, nutrients, and their ratios in grasses. Journal of Ecology: 110(1), 129-143. [Link to paper]
5. Petit Bon M, Böhner H, Bråthen KA, Ravolainen VT, Jónsdóttir IS (2021). Variable responses of carbon and nitrogen contents in vegetation and soil to herbivory and warming in high-Arctic tundra. Ecosphere: 12(9), e03746. [Link to paper]
4. Tuomi M, Väisänen M, Ylänne H, Brearley FQ, Barrio IC, Bråthen KA, Eischeid I, Forbes BC, Jónsdóttir IS, Kolstad AL, Macek P, Petit Bon M, Speed JDM, Stark S, Svavarsdóttir K, Thórsson J, Bueno GC (2021). Stomping in silence: Conceptualizing trampling effects on soils in polar tundra. Functional Ecology: 35(2), 306-317. [Link to paper]
3. Petit Bon M, Böhner H, Kaino S, Torunn M, Bråthen KA (2020). One leaf for all: Chemical traits of single leaves measured at the leaf surface using Near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Methods in Ecology and Evolution: 11(9), 1061-1071. [Link to paper]
2. Petit Bon M, Inga KG, Jónsdóttir IS, Utsi TA, Soininen EM, Bråthen KA (2020). Interactions between winter and summer herbivory affect spatial and temporal plant nutrient dynamics in tundra grassland communities. Oikos: 129(8), 1229-1242. [Link to paper]
Before 2020
1. Petraglia A, Tomaselli M, Petit Bon M, Delnevo N, Chiari G, Carbognani M (2014). Responses of flowering phenology of snowbed plants to an experimentally imposed extreme advanced snowmelt. Plant Ecology: 215(7), 759-768. [Link to paper]
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