Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

IH Myers-Smith, JT Kerby, GK Phoenix… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread
greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic'is among the world's most important …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages

SA Blowes, SR Supp, LH Antão, A Bates, H Bruelheide… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Human activities are fundamentally altering biodiversity. Projections of declines at the global
scale are contrasted by highly variable trends at local scales, suggesting that biodiversity …

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

AD Bjorkman, IH Myers-Smith, SC Elmendorf… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential
ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and …

Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production

H Liu, Z Mi, LI Lin, Y Wang, Z Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The structure and function of alpine grassland ecosystems, including their extensive soil
carbon stocks, are largely shaped by temperature. The Tibetan Plateau in particular has …

Novel competitors shape species' responses to climate change

JM Alexander, JM Diez, JM Levine - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding how species respond to climate change is critical for forecasting the future
dynamics and distribution of pests, diseases and biological diversity,,. Although ecologists …

Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production

Z Ma, H Liu, Z Mi, Z Zhang, Y Wang, W Xu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a critical environmental problem, prompting
frequent investigations into its consequences for various ecological systems. Few studies …