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32. Assmann, J.J., Akandil, C., Plekhanova, E., Moigne, A.L., Karsanaev, S.V., Maximov, T.C., Schaepman-Strub, G. (2025). High variation in the surface extent of freshwater ponds creates dynamic Arctic tundra landscapes in the lowlands of Eastern Siberia. Environmental Research Letters 20, 114041. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0fb1

31. Dance, M., Saupe, E.E., Borrell, J., Eidesen, P.B., Ackerman, D., Assmann, J.J., Forbes, B.C., Gurskaya, M., Høye, T.T., Karlsen, S.R., Kumpula, T., Lamentowicz, M., Loranty, M.M., Myers-Smith, I., Prevéy, J., Rixen, C., Schaepman-Strub, G., Słowiński, M., Słowińska, S., Sokolov, A., Speed, J.D.M., Spiegel, M., Wilmking, M., Macias-Fauria, M. (2025). Molecular Footprints of Quaternary Climate Fluctuations in the Circumpolar Tundra Shrub Dwarf Birch. Molecular Ecology 34, e70082. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70082

30. Zemlianskii, V., Ermokhina, K., Rietze, N., Heim, R., Assmann, J.J., Rüthi, J., Loginova, N., Schaepman-Strub, G. (2025). Finding northernmost baselines: high variability of above-ground biomass on Eurasian polar desert islands. Environmental Research: Ecology 4, 035006. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/adf447

29. Paulsen, I.G.M, Eischeid, I., Pedersen, Å.Ø., Assmann, J.J., Yoccoz, N.G., Mosbacher, J., Soininen, E.M., Ravolainen, V. (2025). Vascular plant biomass and herbivore disturbance, but not summer temperature, explain satellite and drone-based NDVI in High Arctic Svalbard. Arctic Science. 11, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2024-0033

28. Rietze, N., Heim, R.J., Troeva, E., Schaepman-Strub, G., Assmann, J.J., (2025). Pre-fire Vegetation Conditions and Topography Shape Burn Mosaics of Siberian Tundra Fire Scars. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008608

27. Hoad, C.G., Myers-Smith, I.H., Kerby, J.T., Colesie, C., Assmann, J.J., (2025). Snow persistence lowers and delays peak NDVI, the vegetation index that underpins Arctic greening analyses. Environonmental Research Letters. 20, 034019. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adacff

26. Assmann, J.J., Pedersen, P.B.M., Moeslund, J.E., Senf, C., Treier, U.A., Corcoran, D., Koma, Z., Nord-Larsen, T., Normand, S., (2025). Temperate forests of high conservation value are successfully identified by satellite and LiDAR data fusion. Conservation Science and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13302

25. Frost., G.V., et al. incl. Assmann J.J. (2024). Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report Card 2024. Moon, T.A., Druckenmiller, M.L., and Thoman, R.L., Eds., https://doi.org/10.25923/5t2g-fm41

24. Rietze, N., Assmann, J.J., Plekhanova, E., Naegeli, K., Damm, A., Maximov, T.C., Karsanaev, S.V., Hensgens, G., Schaepman-Strub, G. (2024). Summer drought weakens land surface cooling of tundra vegetation. Environmental Research Letters (19). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad345e

23. von Oppen, J., Assmann, J. J., Bjorkman, A. D., Treier, U. A., Elberling, B., & Normand, S. (2024). Microclimate explains little variation in year-round decomposition across an Arctic tundra landscape. Nordic Journal of Botany, 2024(3), e04062. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04062

22. Pedersen, J. B., Assmann, J. J., Normand, S., Karger, D. N., & Riede, F. (2023). Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe. Current Anthropology, 64(5), 599–608. https://doi.org/10.1086/726700

21. Davison, C. W., Assmann, J. J., Normand, S., Rahbek, C., & Morueta-Holme, N. (2023). Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(7), 1332–1344. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13945

20. Berner, L. T., Assmann, J. J., Normand, S., & Goetz, S. J. (2023). ‘LandsatTS’: An R package to facilitate retrieval, cleaning, cross-calibration, and phenological modeling of Landsat time series data. Ecography, 2023(9), e06768. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06768

19. Candice C. Power, Jakob J. Assmann, Angela L. Prendin, Urs A. Treier, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Signe Normand. 2022. Improving ecological insights from dendroecological studies of Arctic shrub dynamics: Research gaps and potential solutions. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158008

18. Jonathan von Oppen, Jakob J. Assmann, Anne D. Bjorkman, Urs A. Treier, Bo Elberling, Jacob Nabe‐Nielsen, Signe Normand. 2022. Cross‐scale regulation of seasonal microclimate by vegetation and snow in the Arctic tundra. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16426

17. Joseph S. Boyle, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Jakob J. Assmann, Isla H. Myers-Smith. 2022. Summer temperature—but not growing season length—influences radial growth of Salix arctica in coastal Arctic tundra. Polar Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-022-03074-9

16. Andrew C. Martin, Jakob J. Assmann, Richard H.W. Bradshaw, Mari Kuoppamaa, Niina I. Kuosmanen, Signe Normand, James D.M. Speed, Marc Macias-Fauria. 2022. What evidence exists for temporal variability in Arctic terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity throughout the Holocene? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-022-00267-x

15. Natalie I. Chardon, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Jakob J. Assmann, Ida B. Dyrholm Jacobsen, Maya Guéguen, Signe Normand, Sonja Wipf. 2022. High resolution species distribution and abundance models cannot predict separate shrub datasets in adjacent Arctic fjords. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13498

14. Jakob. J. Assmann, Jesper E. Moeslund, Urs A. Treier, Signe Normand. 2022. EcoDes-DK15: High-resolution ecological descriptors of vegetation and terrain derived from Denmark’s national airborne laser scanning data set. Earth System Science Data.  https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-823-2022

13. Jonas Lembrechts et al. incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2022. Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060

12. Isabell Eischeid et al., incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2021. Disturbance Mapping in Arctic Tundra Improved by a Planning Workflow for Drone Studies: Advancing Tools for Future Ecosystem Monitoring. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214466

11. Courtney G Collins, et al. incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2021. Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23841-2

10. Janet D. Prevéy et al. incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2021. The tundra phenology database: More than two decades of tundra phenology responses to climate change. Arctic Science. https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2020-0041

9. Jonathan von Oppen et al. incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2021. Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance. Journal of Vegetation Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13009

8. Jelmer Samplonius et al. incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2020. Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01357-0

7. Jakob J. Assmann, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Andrew M. Cunliffe and Gergana N. Daskalova. 2020. Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbf7d

6. Andrew M. Cunliffe, Jakob J. Assmann, et al. 2020. Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba470

5. Isla H. Myers-Smith, et al. incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2020. Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1

4. Daniel Stow, Caroline J. Nichol, Tom Wade, Jakob J. Assmann, Gillian Simpson and Carole Helfter. 2019. Illumination geometry and flying height influence surface reflectance and NDVI derived from multispectral UAS imagery. Drones. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones3030055

3. Jakob J. Assmann, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Albert B. Phillimore, Anne D. Bjorkman, Richard E. Ennos, Janet S. Prevéy, Greg H.R. Henry, Niels M. Schmidt, Robert D. Hollister. 2019. Local snowmelt and temperature – but not regional sea‐ice – explain variation in spring phenology in coastal Arctic tundra. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14639

2. Isla H. Myers-Smith, et al. incl. Jakob J. Assmann. 2019. Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change. Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1351

1. Jakob J. Assmann, Jeff T. Kerby, Andrew M. Cunliffe, Isla H. Myers-Smith. 2018. Vegetation monitoring using multispectral sensors – best practices and lessons learned from high latitudes. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems. https://doi.org/10.1139/juvs-2018-0018