Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

MMPD Heijmans, RÍ Magnússon, MJ Lara… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tundra vegetation productivity and composition are responding rapidly to climatic changes
in the Arctic. These changes can, in turn, mitigate or amplify permafrost thaw. In this Review …

Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

S Piao, X Wang, T Park, C Chen, XU Lian… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation greenness has been increasing globally since at least 1981, when satellite
technology enabled large-scale vegetation monitoring. The greening phenomenon, together …

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

ME Olson, D Soriano, JA Rosell… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how plants survive drought and cold is increasingly important as plants
worldwide experience dieback with drought in moist places and grow taller with warming in …

Sufficient conditions for rapid range expansion of a boreal conifer

RJ Dial, CT Maher, RE Hewitt, PF Sullivan - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Unprecedented modern rates of warming are expected to advance boreal forest into Arctic
tundra, thereby reducing albedo,–, altering carbon cycling and further changing climate …

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead?

AT Classen, MK Sundqvist, JA Henning… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is altering species distributions and thus interactions among organisms.
Organisms live in concert with thousands of other species, some beneficial, some …

The vegetation greenness trend in Canada and US Alaska from 1984–2012 Landsat data

J Ju, JG Masek - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract To assess the North American high-latitude vegetation response to the rising
temperature, we derived NDVI trend for 91.2% of the non-water, non-snow land area of …

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

IH Myers-Smith, BC Forbes, M Wilmking… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent research using repeat photography, long-term ecological monitoring and
dendrochronology has documented shrub expansion in arctic, high-latitude and alpine …

The influence of global climate change on accumulation and toxicity of persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in Arctic food webs

K Borgå, MA McKinney, H Routti, KJ Fernie… - … Science: Processes & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This review summarizes current understanding of how climate change-driven physical and
ecological processes influence the levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and …

Improved fisheries management could offset many negative effects of climate change

SD Gaines, C Costello, B Owashi, T Mangin, J Bone… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The world's oceans supply food and livelihood to billions of people, yet species' shifting
geographic ranges and changes in productivity arising from climate change are expected to …