Extreme event impacts on CO2 fluxes across a range of high latitude, shrub-dominated ecosystems

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Rachael Treharne, Jarle W Bjerke, Hans Tømmervik, Gareth K Phoenix
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic browning; climate change; dwarf shrub; extreme events; snow cover; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Browning; Norway; Svalbard; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb0b1; https://doaj.org/article/58f22689e8354ddfb2ff207e6016ba3b

The Arctic is experiencing an increased frequency of extreme events which can cause landscape-scale vegetation damage. Extreme event-driven damage is an important driver of the decline in vegetation productivity (termed ‘Arctic browning’) which has become an increasingly important component of pan-A...