Twenty-Two Years of Warming, Fertilisation and Shading of Subarctic Heath Shrubs Promote Secondary Growth and Plasticity but Not Primary Growth

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Campioli, Matteo, Leblans, Niki, Michelsen, Anders
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Research Article; Abisko; Betula nana; Cassiope tetragona; Northern Sweden; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3325270; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22511968; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034842

Most manipulation experiments simulating global change in tundra were short-term or did not measure plant growth directly. Here, we assessed the growth of three shrubs (Cassiope tetragona, Empetrum hermaphroditum and Betula nana) at a subarctic heath in Abisko (Northern Sweden) after 22 years of war...