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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent trends and remaining challenges for optical remote sensing of Arctic tundra vegetation: A review and outlook

A Beamish, MK Raynolds, H Epstein, GV Frost… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A systematic review and inventory of recent research relating to optical remote sensing of
Arctic vegetation was conducted, and thematic and geographical trends were summarized …

Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon

Y Chen, DM Romps, JT Seeley, S Veraverbeke… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Lightning is an indicator and a driver of climate change. Here, using satellite observations of
lightning flash rate and ERA5 reanalysis, we find that the spatial pattern of summer lightning …

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 …

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

MA Moritz, MA Parisien, E Batllori, MA Krawchuk… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well‐being throughout
the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad …

[KÖNYV][B] Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems: ecology, evolution and management

JE Keeley, WJ Bond, RA Bradstock, JG Pausas… - 2011 - books.google.com
Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this
book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire in sha** …

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

IH Myers‐Smith, DS Hik - Journal of Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is predicted to alter ecological boundaries in high‐latitude ecosystems
including the elevational or latitudinal extent of tall shrubs in Arctic and alpine tundra. Over …

Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire

MC Mack, MS Bret-Harte, TN Hollingsworth, RR Jandt… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Arctic tundra soils store large amounts of carbon (C) in organic soil layers hundreds to
thousands of years old that insulate, and in some cases maintain, permafrost soils,. Fire has …

Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south‐central Brooks Range, Alaska

PE Higuera, LB Brubaker, PM Anderson… - Ecological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We examined direct and indirect impacts of millennial‐scale climate change on fire regimes
in the south‐central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA, using four lake sediment records and …

Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses

AC Foster, JA Wang, GV Frost… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse
set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes …