Long-Term Effects of Grazing and Global Warming on the Composition and Carrying Capacity of Graminoid Marshes for Moulting Geese in East Greenland

• Published in: AMBIO
• Main Authors: Madsen, Jesper, Jaspers, Cornelia, Tamstorf, Mikkel, Mortensen, Christian Ebbe, Rigét, Frank
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2011
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Greenland; Jameson Land; East Greenland; Global warming
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357869; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21954726; https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0170-4

Greening of the Arctic due to climate warming may provide herbivores with richer food supplies, resulting in higher herbivore densities. In turn, this may cause changes in vegetation composition and ecosystem function. In 1982–1984, we studied the ecology of non-breeding moulting geese in Jameson La...