2023
Gracía Criado et al (including TRANT AJ). Plant traits poorly predict winner and loser shrub species in a warming tundra biome. Nature Communications. Accepted.
Ho-Tassone E, Courtenay S, TRANT AJ, Miller R. Knowledge co-creation through Indigenous arts: Diversity in freshwater quality monitoring and management. Journal of Great Lakes Research. Accepted.
2022
Ho-Tassone E, Judge A, TRANT AJ, Courtenay S. Collaborative watershed analysis: A ‘groupthink’ assessment of cumulative effects. Journal of Great Lakes Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2022.11.004
Wickham S, Augustine S, Forney A, Mathews D, Shackelford N, Walkus J, TRANT AJ. Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration. Ecology and Society. Accepted.
Hoffman KM, Cardinal Christianson A, Davis E, Wickham S, TRANT AJ. How does cultural burning increase global biodiversity? Frontiers for Young Minds. doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.734864.
Schang K, Cox K, TRANT AJ. Habitation sites influence tree community assemblages in the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.791047
Dias AC, Armitage D, TRANT AJ. Uncovering wellbeing-ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil. Ecology and Society. 27(1):44. doi.org/10.5751/ES-13070-270144
Tutton R, Way R, Beddoe R, Zhang Y, TRANT AJ. Soil temperature sensitivity to variable snow and vegetation conditions in low-relief coastal mountains, Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut, Labrador. RCOP2021.
2021
TRANT AJ, Davis E, Hermanutz L, Cuerrier A, Laing R, Knight T, Lightfoot H, Siegwart Collier L, Whitaker D, Way R. Past of future ecosystem change in Torngat Mountains Nation Park (Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga), northern Nunatsiavut, Labrador. The Alpine Club of Canada’s State of the Mountains Report. Vol 4. July 2021.
Hoffman K, Davis E, Wickham S, Schang K, Johnson A, Larking T, Lauriault P, Le N, Swerdfager E, TRANT AJ. Conservation of Earth’s biodiversity is embedded in Indigenous fire stewardship. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi/10.1073/pnas.2105073118. Link should work by Aug 6th!
Davis E, TRANT AJ, Way R, Hermanutz L, Whitaker D. Rapid ecosystem change at the southern limit of the Canadian Arctic, Torngat Mountains National Park. Remote Sensing. 13(11), 2085; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112085.
Larking T, Davis E, Way R, Hermanutz H TRANT AJ. Recent greening driven by species-specific shrub growth characteristics in Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada. Arctic Science. doi.org/10.1139/AS-2020-003.
Hoffman KM, Lertzman KP, Giesbrecht I, Starzomski BM, TRANT AJ. Old growth forest structure in an outer coast perhumid rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Ecosphere. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3513.
2020
Davis EL, TRANT AJ, Hermanutz L, Way R, Lewkowicz A, Siegwart Collier L, Cuerrier A and D Whitaker. Vegetation-environment interactions in the low Arctic coastal mountains. Ecosystems. doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00577-6.
TRANT AJ, Higgs E, Starzomski BM. A century of high elevation ecosystem change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Scientific Reports. 10 (9698). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66277-2
Ho E, TRANT AJ, Gray M, Courtenay S. Comparative review of freshwater monitoring approaches: strengths, opportunities and recommendations. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 20 (614). doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08570-1
TRANT AJ. Raising a glass to my long-dead collaborators. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Behind the Papers. (Companion piece to TRANT et al. 2020 Sci. Rep.)
Schang K, TRANT AJ, Bohnert S, Closs A, Humchitt M, McIntosh K, Way R, Wickham S. Ecological research should consider Indigenous peoples and stewardship. FACETS. doi.org/10.1139/facets-2019-0041
Saraswati S, Bhusal Y, TRANT AJ, Strack M. Roads impact tree and shrub productivity in adjacent boreal peatlands. Forests. 11(5). doi.org/10.3390/f11050594.
Thomas HJD et al. (including TRANT AJ). Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. Nature Communications. 11(1351) doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15014-4
Hamberg J, Fraser R, Robinson D, TRANT AJ, Murphy S. Surface temperature as an indicator of plant species diversity and restoration in oak woodland. Ecological Indicators. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106249.
2019
Fisher J, Shackelford N, Hocking M, TRANT AJ, Starzomski B. Indigenous peoples’ habitation history drives present-day forest biodiversity in British Columbia’s coastal temperate rainforest. People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.16.
Brown CD, Dufour‐Tremblay G, Jameson R, Mamet SD, TRANT AJ, Walker XJ, Boudreau S, Harper K, Henry GH, Hermanutz L, Hofgaard A. Reproduction as a bottleneck to treeline advance across the circumarctic forest tundra ecotone. Ecography. doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03733
Thomas H et al. (including TRANT AJ). Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12783.
Mamet SD, Brown CB, TRANT AJ, Laroque C. Shifting global Larix distributions: northern expansion and southern retraction as species respond to changing climate. Journal of Biogeography. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13465
2018
Bjorkman, A. et al. (including TRANT AJ): Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature. doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7
TRANT AJ, Jameson R, Hermanutz L. Variation in reproductive potential across a multi-species treeline. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 50(1).
Bjorkman A et al. (including TRANT AJ). Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12821.
Frei E, Bianchi E, Bernareggi G, Bebi P, Dawes MA, Brown CD, TRANT AJ, Mamet SD, Rixen C. Biotic and abiotic drivers of tree seedling recruitment across an alpine treeline ecotone. Scientific Reports. 8:10894 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28808-w
Hoffman K, TRANT AJ, Nijland W, Starzomski BM. Ecological legacies of fire detected using plot-level measurements and LiDAR in an old growth coastal temperate rainforest. Forest Ecology and Management. 424: 11-20.
2017
Beller E, McClenachan L, TRANT AJ, Sanderson EW, Rhemtulla J, Guerrini A, Grossinger R, Higgs E. Toward principles of historical ecology. American Journal of Botany. 104(5): 1-4 doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1700070
2016
*TRANT AJ, Nijland W, Hoffman K, Mathews DL, McLaren D, Nelson TA, Starzomski BM. Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms12491 [open access]
*winner of the 2017 WS Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America
2015
TRANT AJ, Lewis KP, Cranston BH, Wheeler JA, Jameson RG, Jacobs JD, Hermanutz L, Starzomski BM. Complex changes in plant communities across a subarctic-alpine treeline in Labrador, Canada. Arctic. 68(4): 500-512. doi: dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4528
Myers-Smith IH, Elmendorf SC, Beck PSA, Wilmking M, Hallinger M, Blok D, Tape KD, Rayback SA, Macias-Fauria M, Forbes BC, Speed JDM, Boulanger-Lapointe N, Rixen C, Lévesque E, Martin Schmidt NM, Baittinger C, TRANT AJ, Hermanutz L, Siegwart Collier L, Dawes MA, Lantz T, Weijers S, Jørgensen RH, Buchwal A, Buras A, Naito, AT, Ravolainen V, Schaepman-Strub G, Wheeler J, Wipf S, Guay K, Hik DS, Vellend M. Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2697.
Suarez-Gonzalez A, Sutton J, TRANT AJ, Zamlynny E, Good S. Rethinking refugia: Tree topology, divergence dates, and demographic history trace the distribution of the endangered Plymouth gentian (Sabatia kennedyana, Gentianaceae) from the Pleistocene glaciation to present day. American Journal of Botany. 102(4): 609-620.
TRANT AJ, Starzomski BM, Higgs E. A publicly available database for studying ecological change in mountain ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13(4):187. https://doi.org/10.1890/15.WB.007
Jameson RG, TRANT AJ, Hermanutz L. Insects can limit seed productivity at the treeline. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45(3): 286-296 doi: 10.1139/cjfe-2014-0385.
Myers-Smith IH, Hallinger M, Blok D, Sass-Klaassen U, Rayback SA, Weijers S, TRANT AJ, Tape KD, Naito AT, Wipf S, Rixen C, Dawes MA, Wheeler JA, Buchwalk A, Baittinger C, Macias-Fauria M, Forbes BC, Lévesque E, Boulanger-Lapointe N, Beil I, Ravolainen V, Wilmking M. Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review. Earth-Science Reviews 140: 1-13 doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.10.004
2014
TRANT AJ, Hermanutz L. Advancing towards novel treelines: a multispecies approach to treeline dynamics in the subarctic alpine Labrador. Journal of Biogeography 41(6): 1115-1125 doi: 10.1111/jbi/12287
2013
Brown CD, Mamet SD, TRANT AJ. The Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment. Mountain Views 7(2): 6-7.
TRANT AJ. Changing treelines: how variability in scale and approach improve our understanding. PhD Dissertation. Department of Biology. Memorial University.
2012
TRANT AJ, Jacobs J, Sable T. Teaching and learning about climate change with Innu Environmental Guardians. Polar Geography: 10.1080/1088937X.2012.682229
2011
Myers-Smith I, Forbes B, WIlmking, M, Hallinger M, Lantz T, Blok D, Tape K, Macias Fauria M, Sass-Klaassen U, Levesque E, Boudreau S, Ropars P, Hermanutz L, TRANT AJ, Siegwart Collier L, Weijers S, Rozema J, Rayback S, Schmidt, N, Schaepman-Strub G, Wipf S, Rixen C, Menard C, Venn S, Goetz S, Andreu-Hayles L, Elmendorf S, Epstein H, Welker J, Grogan P, Hik D. Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: Dynamics, impacts and research priorities. Environmental Research Letters 6 045509.
TRANT AJ, Jameson RG, Hermanutz L. Persistence at treeline: Old trees as opportunists. Arctic 84(3): 367-370.
2010
Harper KA, Danby RK, DeFields DL, Lewis KP, TRANT AJ, Starzomski BM, Savidge R, Hermanutz L. Change in the spatial pattern of trees along the forest-tundra gradient at treeline sites across Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41(3): 479-489.
TRANT AJ, Herman TB, Good-Avila SV. Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on reproductive ecology and pollinator service of Plymouth Gentian (Sabatia kennedyana Fern.), a lakeshore plant species at risk. Plant Ecology 210(2): 241-252.
2008
Bell T, Jacobs JD, Munier A, LeBlanc P, TRANT AJ. Climate change and renewable resources in Labrador: Looking towards 2050. Proceedings and report of a conference held in North West River, Labrador, 11-13 March.
2007
TRANT AJ (2007) Status report for Southern Twayblade (Listera australis) for Nova Scotia, Canada.
2005
TRANT AJ. Effects of lakeshore development on the pollinator service, seed bank composition, and stewardship of Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora in Nova Scotia, Canada. MSc Biology. Acadia University. Wolfville, Nova Scotia.