Expansion of voles and retraction of lemmings over 60 years along a latitudinal gradient on Yamal Peninsula

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Sokolova, Natalia A., Fufachev, Ivan A., Ehrich, Dorothee, Shtro, Victor G., Sokolov, Vasiliy A., Sokolov, Aleksandr A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Climate change; Dicrostonyx torquatus; Lemmus sibiricus; Tundra; Yamal Peninsula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17161; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.17161

Abstract Range shifts and changes in dominance of species in communities are among the major predicted impacts of climate change on ecosystems, supported by numerous modeling studies. While climate is changing particularly rapidly in the Arctic, little observational data is available to document pre...