Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

• Published in: Nature Climate Change
• Main Authors: Myers-Smith, Isla H., Kerby, Jeffrey T., Phoenix, Gareth K., Bjerke, Jarle W., Epstein, Howard E., Assmann, Jakob J., John, Christian, Andreu-Hayles, Laia, Angers-Blodin, Sandra, Beck, Pieter S. A., Berner, Logan T., Bhatt, Uma S., Bjorkman, Anne D., Blok, Daan, Bryn, Anders, Christiansen, Casper T., Cornelissen, J. Hans C., Cunliffe, Andrew M., Elmendorf, Sarah C., Forbes, Bruce C., Goetz, Scott J., Hollister, Robert D., de Jong, Rogier, Loranty, Michael M., Macias-Fauria, Marc, Maseyk, Kadmiel, Normand, Signe, Olofsson, Johan, Parker, Thomas C., Parmentier, Frans-Jan W., Post, Eric, Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela, Stordal, Frode, Sullivan, Patrick F., Thomas, Haydn J. D., Tømmervik, Hans, Treharne, Rachael, Tweedie, Craig E., Walker, Donald A., Wilmking, Martin, Wipf, Sonja
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Browning; Arctic Greening; Climate change
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/69324/; https://oro.open.ac.uk/69324/1/NCLIM-18112124C_Arctic_Greening_Perspective_Dec2019_v22.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1

As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic' is among the world’s most important large-scale ecological responses to global climate change. However, a consensus is emerging that the under...