Declining temperature and increasing moisture sensitivity of shrub growth in the Low‐Arctic erect dwarf‐shrub tundra of western Greenland

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Author: Stef Weijers
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: branch mortality; branching; browning; greening; NDVI; shrub expansion; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Arctic; Greenland; Browning; Cassiope tetragona; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9419; https://doaj.org/article/c29cbb4cb3fe4eb49ebda927c7388519

Abstract Evergreen dwarf shrubs respond swiftly to warming in the cool and dry High Arctic, but their response in the warmer Low Arctic, where they are expected to be outcompeted by taller species under future warming, remains to be clarified. Here, 12,528 annual growth increments, covering 122 year...