Environmental characteristics, and growth traits and leaf chemistry of tundra plants in a warming experiment at Alexandra Fiord

• Main Authors: Hudson, James M G, Henry, Gregory HR, Cornwell, Will K
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Alexandra_Fiord_sites; Ellesmere Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; HAND; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Sampling by hand; Alexandra Fiord; Arctic; Arctic Archipelago; Cassiope tetragona; Climate change; Eriophorum; International Polar Year; Nunavut; Oxyria digyna; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.811482; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.811482

Understanding plant trait responses to elevated temperatures in the Arctic is critical in light of recent and continuing climate change, especially because these traits act as key mechanisms in climate-vegetation feedbacks. Since 1992, we have artificially warmed three plant communities at Alexandra...