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 …

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 …

From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

SB Rumpf, M Gravey, O Brönnimann, M Luoto… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Mountains are hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but they are warming about
twice as fast as the global average. Climate change may reduce alpine snow cover and …

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 …

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

C Rixen, TT Høye, P Macek, R Aerts, JM Alatalo… - Arctic …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Snow is an important driver of ecosystem processes in cold biomes. Snow accumulation
determines ground temperature, light conditions, and moisture availability during winter. It …

Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

BC McLaughlin, DD Ackerly, PZ Klos… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate, physical landscapes, and biota interact to generate heterogeneous hydrologic
conditions in space and over time, which are reflected in spatial patterns of species …

Arctic terrestrial hydrology: A synthesis of processes, regional effects, and research challenges

A Bring, I Fedorova, Y Dibike, L Hinzman… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial hydrology is central to the Arctic system and its freshwater circulation. Water
transport and water constituents vary, however, across a very diverse geography. In this …

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 …

Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology

FS Chapin, PA Matson, HA Mooney, PM Vitousek - 2002 - Springer
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Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

SC Elmendorf, GHR Henry, RD Hollister… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) Abstract Understanding the sensitivity of tundra vegetation to climate
warming is critical to forecasting future biodiversity and vegetation feedbacks to climate. In …