2025
Colesie,
Claudia, Andrew Møller Gray, Charlotte V. Walshaw, Stef Bokhorst, Jeffrey T.
Kerby, Shridhar Jawak, Leopoldo G. Sancho, and Peter Convey. "Is
Antarctica Greening?." Global Change Biology 31, no. 6 (2025):
e70294.
García
Criado, M., Myers-Smith, I.H., Bjorkman, A.D. et al. Plant diversity dynamics
over space and time in a warming Arctic. Nature 642, 653–661 (2025).
García Criado, M., Barrio, I. C., Speed, J. D., Bjorkman, A. D., Elmendorf, S. C., Myers‐Smith, I. H., ... & Vowles, T. (2025). Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal‐Tundra Species. Ecology Letters, 28(9), e70209. 1.
Hagge,
P., King-Doonan, E., Lutzoni, F., Miadlikowska, J., Aguero, B., Whitby, H.,
Umbanhowar, C., Colesie, C., Arnold, A.E., Yitong, E. and Cassar, N., 2025.
Nitrogen fixation in Arctic lichens and mosses: A survey across circumpolar
subzones. Science of The Total Environment, 999, p.180264.
Plasman,
C., Terauds, A., Raymond, B., Lee, J., Hughes, K., Treasure, A., Neder, C.,
Colesie, C., Cajiao, D., Schaepman-Strub, G., Tołkacz, K., R. Pertierra, L.,
Quiroga, M. V., Davey, M. P., Miloslavich, P., Czechowski, P., Convey, P.,
Robinson, S., Bokhorst, S., … Van de Putte, A. (2025). Essential Biodiversity
Variables Framework for Terrestrial Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems.
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Thomson,
A. I., Gray, A., Colesie, C., Thomas, N., Moulton, H., Convey, P., ... &
Davey, M. P. (2025). Surface darkening by abundant and diverse algae on an
Antarctic ice cap. Nature Communications, 16(1), 2647.
Ormond,
A., Ellis, C. J., & Colesie, C. (2025). The trade-off between
photosynthetic rate and thallus moisture-demand explains lichen habitat
association with the temperate rainforest. Oecologia, 207(3), 1-14.
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. Environmental Research Letters,
20(3), 034019.
2024
Walshaw,
C. V., Gray, A., Fretwell, P. T., Convey, P., Davey, M. P., Johnson, J. S.,
& Colesie, C. (2024). A satellite-derived baseline of photosynthetic life
across Antarctica. Nature Geoscience, 17(8), 755-762.
2023
Stanton,
D.E., Ormond, A., Koch, N.M., Colesie C. (2023). Lichen ecophysiology in a
changing climate. The American Journal of Botany
2022
Colesie, C.,
Walshaw, C. V., Sancho, L. G., Davey, M. P., & Gray, A. (2022).
Antarctica's vegetation in a changing climate. Wiley Interdisciplinary
Reviews: Climate Change, e810.
Gemal, E. L., Green,
T. G. A., Cary, S. C., & Colesie, C. (2022). High Resilience and Fast
Acclimation Processes Allow the Antarctic Moss Bryum argenteum to
Increase Its Carbon Gain in Warmer Growing Conditions. Biology,
11(12), 1773.
Porada, P., Bader,
M. Y., Berdugo, M. B., Colesie, C., Ellis, C. J., Giordani, P., ... &
Weston, D. J. (2022). A research agenda for non‐vascular photoautotrophs
under climate change. New Phytologist. 237, no. 5 (2023):
1495-1504.
Ma, Y., Weber, B.,
Kratz, A., Raggio, J., Colesie, C., Veste, M., ... & Porada, P. (2022). Key
drivers of the annual carbon budget of biocrusts from various climatic zones determined
with a mechanistic data-driven model. Biogeosciences Discussions,
1-31.
Colesie, C., Pan,
Y., Cary, S. C., Gemal, E., Brabyn, L., Kim, J.‐H., Green, T.G.A.,
Lee, C. (2022). The longest baseline record of vegetation dynamics in
Antarctica reveals acute sensitivity to water availability. Earth's
Future, 10 (8), e2022EF002823.
2021 and before
Gutt, J., Isla, E.,
Xavier, J. C., Adams, B. J., Ahn, I. Y., Cheng, C. H. C., Colesie, C ... &
Wall, D. H. (2021). Antarctic ecosystems in transition–life between stresses
and opportunities. Biological Reviews, 96(3), 798-821.
Gray, A., Krolikowski, M., Fretwell,
P., Convey, P., Peck, L. S., Mendelova, M., Smith, A. G. & Davey, M.
P. (2021) Remote Sensing Phenology of Antarctic Green and Red Snow Algae Using
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Belcher, A., Fielding, S., Gray, A.,
Biermann, L., Stowasser, G., Fretwell, P., Ireland, L. & Tarling, G. A.,
(2021) Experimental determination of reflectance spectra of Antarctic krill
(Euphausia superba) in the Scotia Sea. In: Antarctic science.
Gray, A., Krolikowski, M., Fretwell,
P. et al. (2020) Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important
terrestrial carbon sink. Nature Communications 11,2527
James, K.; Nichol, C.J.; Wade, T.;
Cowley, D.; Gibson Poole, S.; Gray, A.; Gillespie, J. (2020) Thermal and
Multispectral Remote Sensing for the Detection and Analysis of Archaeologically
Induced Crop Stress at a UK Site. Drones, 4,61
Colesie, C., Stangl, Z.R., Hurry, V.
(2020). Differences in growth-economics of fast vs. slow growing grass species
in response to temperature and nitrogen limitation individually, and in
combination. BMC Ecology, 20:63
Sancho, L., de los Ríos, A., Pintado,
A., Colesie, C., Raggio, J., Ascaso, C., & Green, A. (2020). Himantormia
lugubris, an Antarctic endemic on the edge of the lichen symbiosis. Symbiosis, 1-10.
Jung, P., Emrich, D., Briegel‐Williams, L., Schermer, M., Weber,
L., Baumann, K., Colesie, C., Clerc, P., Lehnert, L.W., Achilles,
S., Bendix J., Büdel, B. (2019). Ecophysiology and phylogeny of new terricolous
and epiphytic chlorolichens in a fog oasis of the Atacama Desert. Microbiology
Open, e894.
Mugnai, G., Rossi, F., Felde,
V.J.M.N.L., Colesie, C., Büdel, B., Peth, S., Kaplan, A., De Phillips, R.
(2018) The potential of the cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya ohadii as inoculum for
stabilizing bare sandy substrates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 127:
318-328
Szyja, M., Büdel, B., Colesie, C.
(2018) Ecophysiological characterization of early successional biological soil
crusts in heavily human-impacted areas. Biogeosciences 15:
1919-1931.
Tamm, A., Caesar, J., Kunz, N.,
Colesie, C., Reichenberger, H., Weber, B. (2018) Ecophysiological properties of
three biological soil crust types and their photoautotrophs from the Succulent
Karoo, South Africa. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3635-4.
Rippin, M., Borchhardt, N., Williams,
L., Colesie, C., Jung, P., Büdel, B., Karsten, U., Becker, B.
(2018) Genus richness of microalgae and Cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts
from Svalbard and Livingston Island: morphological versus molecular approaches. Polar
Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2252-2.
Colesie, C., Büdel, B., Hurry, V.,
Green, T.G.A. (2017) Can Antarctic lichens acclimatise to changes in
temperature. Global Change Biology 24: 1123–1135.
Colesie, C., Williams, L.,
Büdel, B. (2017) Internal thallus water status in the soil crust lichen Psora
decipiens is optimised via a high phenotypic plasticity. The
Lichenologist 49: 483–492.
Mugnai, G., Rossi, F., Felde,
V.J.M.N.L., Colesie, C., Büdel, B., Peth, S., Kaplan, A., De Phillips, R.
(2017) Development of the polysaccharidic matirx in biocrusts induced by a
cyanobacterium inoculated in sand microcosms. Biology and Fertility of
Soils 54: 27–40.
Raggio, J., Green, T.G.A., Sancho,
L.G., Pintado, A., Colesie, C., Weber, B., Büdel, B. (2017) Metabolic activity
duration can be effectively predicted from macroclimatic data for biological
soil crust habitats across Europe. Geoderma 306: 10-17.
Williams, L., Colesie, C., Ullmann,
A., Westberg, M., Wedin, M., Büdel, B. (2016) Lichen acclimation to changing
environments: Photobiont switching vs. climate-specific uniqueness in Psora
decipiens. Ecology and Evolution 7: 2560-2574.
Felde, V.J.M.N.L., Rossi, F.,
Colesie, C., Uteau-Puschmann, D., Horn, R., Felix-Henningsen, P., De Phillips,
R., Peth, S. (2016) Pore characteristics in biological soil crusts are
independent of extracellular polymeric substances. Soil Biology and
Biochemistry 103: 294-299.
Colesie, C., Büdel, B., Green, T.G.A. (2016) Endolithic communities in the Mc Murdo Dry Valleys: biomass, turnover, cyanobacteria and location – a preliminary insight. Algological Studies 151/152: 51-68.
Williams, L., Borchhardt, N., Colesie, C., Baum C.,
Komsic-Buchmann K., Rippin M., Becker B., Karsten U., Büdel, B. (2016)
Biological soil crusts of Arctic Svalbard and of Livingston Island,
Antarctica. Polar Biology 40:399–411.
Colesie, C., Green, T.G.A., Raggio,
J., Büdel, B. (2016) Summer activity patterns of Antarctic and high alpine
lichen dominated biological soil crusts – similar but different? Arctic,
Antarctic and Alpine Research 48: 449-460.
Pande, S., Shitut, S., Freund, L., Westermann, M., Bertels, F., Colesie, C., Bischofs, B., Kost, C. (2015) Metabolic cross-feeding via inter-cellular nanotubes among bacteria. Nature communications 6: 6238.
Colesie, C., Green, T.G.A., Haferkamp, I.,
Büdel, B. (2014) Lichen dominated soil crusts show changes in composition, CO2 gas
exchange, and carbon allocation as stress-related traits across habitats of
different severity. The ISME Journal 8: 2104–2115.
Colesie, C., Green T.G.A., Türk R.,
Hogg I.D., Sancho L.G., Büdel, B. (2014) Terrestrial biodiversity trends along
the Ross Sea coastline, Antarctica: Lack of latitudinal gradient, controls and
potential limits to bioclimatic modelling. Polar Biology 37:
1197-1208.
Raggio, J., Pintado, A., Vivas, M.,
Sancho, L.G:, Büdel, B., Colesie, C., Weber, B., Schroeter, B:, Green, T.G.A.
(2014) Continuous chlorophyll fluorescence, gas exchange and microclimate
monitoring in a natural soil crust habitat in Tabernas badlands, Almeria,
Spain: Progressing towards a model to understand productivity. Biodiversity
and Conservation 2: 1809-1826.
Büdel, B., Colesie, C., Green,
T.G.A., Grube, M., Lazaro-Suau, R., Loewen-Schneider, K., Maier, S., Peer, T.,
Pintado, A., Raggio, J., Ruprecht, U., Sancho, L., Schroeter, B:, Türk, R.,
Weber, B., Wedin, M., Westberg, M., Williams, L., Zheng, L. (2014) Improved
appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in
Europe – The Soil Crust International project (SCIN). Biodiversity and
Conservation 23: 1639-1658.
Colesie, C., Gommeaux, M., Green,
T.G.A., Büdel, B. (2014) Biological soil crusts in continental Antarctica:
Garwood Valley, Southern Victoria Land, and Diamond Hill, Darwin Mountains region. Antarctic
Science 26, 115-123.
Shao, Y., Spiteller, D., Tang, X.,
Ping, L., Colesie, C., Münchberg, U., Lorenz, S., Schönemann, L., Jia, A.,
Bartram, S., Schneider, B., Büdel, B., Popp, J., Svatoš, A., Heckel, D.G.,
Boland, W. (2011) Crystallization of - and -carotene in the forgut of
Spodoptera larvae feeding on suboptimal food plant. Insect Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology 41: 211-218.
Colesie, C., Scheu, S., Green,
T.G.A., Weber, B., Wirth, R., Büdel, B. (2011) The advantage of growing on
moss: facilitative effects on photosynthetic performance and growth in the
cyanobacterial lichen Peltigera rufescens. Oecologia 169:
599-607.