Polar semidesert responses to long-term experimental warming and wetting, Thule, Northwest Greenland, 2018.

• Main Authors: Robert Jespersen, Jeffrey Welker, Maria Vaisanen, A. Joshua Leffler
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2022
• Subjects: CO2 flux; ecosystem; carbon; vegetation change; stable isotopes; tundra; polar semi-desert; Salix arctica; Dryas integrifolia; Carex rupestris; arctica; integrifolia; rupestris; Arctic; Greenland; Thule Air Base; Thule Air; Thule; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2KH0F09B

Dramatic increases in air temperature and precipitation are occurring in the High Arctic (70 °North), yet few studies have characterized the long-term responses of High Arctic ecosystems to the interactive effects of experimental warming and increased rain. Beginning in 2003, we applied a factorial...