Increased Arctic climate extremes constrain expected higher plant reproductive success in a warmer climate

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Panchen, Zoe A., Frei, Esther R., Henry, Greg H.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2022
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Alexandra Fiord; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0045; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/as-2020-0045; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/as-2020-0045

The low reproductive success of Arctic plants is predicted to increase as the climate warms. However, climate extremes add complexity to these predictions. In the extremely cold year of 2018, multiple Arctic trophic levels experienced reproductive failure. We analysed a unique long-term record of se...