A warmer and greener cold world: summer warming increases shrub growth in the alpine and high Arctic tundra
Abstract: The Arctic and alpine biome is rapidly warming, which might be causing an encroachment of relatively tall woody shrub vegetation into tundra ecosystems, which will probably result in an overall positive feedback to climate warming. This encroachment is, however, believed to remain limited to the relatively warm parts of the biome, where taller shrubs may displace shorter species. Still, climate sensitivity of shrub growth strongly differs between species and sites and High Arctic dwarf shrub species may respond rapidly to increasing temperatures in absence of taller species. In addition, it remains largely unknown whether shrubs from different functional groups from the same sites respond similarly to climate drivers. In the present study we examined the climate-growth relationships of six different site-species combinations: one evergreen and one deciduous shrub species at two alpine sites, and one evergreen dwarf shrub species at two High Arctic sites. We compared linear mixed mo.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2826
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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A warmer and greener cold world: summer warming increases shrub growth in the alpine and high Arctic tundra ; volume:72 ; number:1 ; year:2018
Erdkunde ; 72, Heft 1 (2018)
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Weijers, Setf
Meyers-Smith, Isla H.
Löffler, Jörg
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10.3112/erdkunde.2018.01.04
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281745540.276610005558
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Weijers, Setf
- Meyers-Smith, Isla H.
- Löffler, Jörg
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