Twenty-two years of warming, fertilisation and shading of subarctic heath shrubs promote secondary growth and plasticity but not primary growth.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Matteo Campioli, Niki Leblans, Anders Michelsen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Abisko; Betula nana; Cassiope tetragona; Northern Sweden; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034842; https://doaj.org/article/41b568df4f8c46a6a292441a366e038b

Most manipulation experiments simulating global change in tundra were short-term or did not measure plant growth directly. Here, we assessed the growth of three shrubs (Cassiope tetragona, Empetrum hermaphroditum and Betula nana) at a subarctic heath in Abisko (Northern Sweden) after 22 years of war...