Arctic browning: Impacts of extreme climatic events on heathland ecosystem CO2 fluxes.

• Main Authors: Treharne, R., Bjerke, J.W., Tømmervik, H., Stendardi, L., Phoenix, G.K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Browning; Climate change
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/140798/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/140798/1/Treharne_et_al-2019-Global_Change_Biology.pdf

Extreme climatic events are among the drivers of recent declines in plant biomass and productivity observed across Arctic ecosystems, known as "Arctic browning." These events can cause landscape-scale vegetation damage and so are likely to have major impacts on ecosystem CO2 balance. Howev...