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

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Treharne, Rachael, Bjerke, Jarle W., Tømmervik, Hans, Phoenix, Gareth K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic browning; climate change; dwarf shrub; extreme events; snow cover; winter; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488; Arctic; Browning; Norway; Svalbard; Climate change
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2728478; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb0b1

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...