Summer litter decomposition is moderated by scale-dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems ...

• Main Author: Gallois, Elise
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2023
• Subjects: FOS Natural sciences; Decomposition; Tundra; tea bag index; litter; microclimate; Temperature; moisture; Climate change; ecosystem change; carbon cycling; Canada; Herschel Island; Yukon; Active layer thickness; Herschel; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsv29; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsv29

Tundra soils are one of the world’s largest organic carbon stores, yet this carbon is vulnerable to accelerated decomposition as climate warming progresses. The landscape-scale controls of litter decomposition are poorly understood in tundra ecosystems, which hinders our understanding of the global...