Differential physiological responses to environmental change promote woody shrub expansion

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Heskel, Mary, Greaves, Heather, Kornfeld, Ari, Gough, Laura, Atkin, Owen K, Turnbull, Matthew H, Shaver, Gaius, Griffin, Kevin L
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
• Subjects: Original Research; Anet; Arctic; Betula nana; Climate change; Eriophorum; Rubus chamaemorus; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678471; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23762503; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.525

Direct and indirect effects of warming are increasingly modifying the carbon-rich vegetation and soils of the Arctic tundra, with important implications for the terrestrial carbon cycle. Understanding the biological and environmental influences on the processes that regulate foliar carbon cycling in...