Publication Date:
2012-05-26
Description:
Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming Nature Climate Change 2, 453 08042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1465 Sarah C. Elmendorf Gregory H. R. Henry Robert D. Hollister Robert G. Björk Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe Elisabeth J. Cooper Johannes H. C. Cornelissen Thomas A. Day Ellen Dorrepaal Tatiana G. Elumeeva Mike Gill William A. Gould John Harte David S. Hik Annika Hofgaard David R. Johnson Jill F. Johnstone Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir Janet C. Jorgenson Kari Klanderud Julia A. Klein Saewan Koh Gaku Kudo Mark Lara Esther Lévesque Borgthor Magnússon Jeremy L. May Joel A. Mercado-Dı´az Anders Michelsen Ulf Molau Isla H. Myers-Smith Steven F. Oberbauer Vladimir G. Onipchenko Christian Rixen Niels Martin Schmidt Gaius R. Shaver Marko J. Spasojevic Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir Anne Tolvanen Tiffany Troxler Craig E. Tweedie Sandra Villareal Carl-Henrik Wahren Xanthe Walker Patrick J. Webber Jeffrey M. Welker Sonja Wipf Satellite data suggest that contemporary climate warming has already resulted in increased productivity and shrub biomass over much of the Arctic, but plot-level evidence for vegetation transformation remains sparse. Now research provides plot-scale evidence linking changes in vascular plant abundance to local summer warming in widely dispersed tundra locations across the globe.
Print ISSN:
1758-678X
Electronic ISSN:
1758-6798
Topics:
Geosciences
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