Rapid carbon turnover beneath shrub and tree vegetation is associated with low soil carbon stocks at a subarctic treeline

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Parker, Thomas C, Subke, Jens-Arne, Wookey, Philip A
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
• Subjects: Primary Research Articles; Abisko; Arctic; Betula nana; Empetrum nigrum; Subarctic; Tundra; Lapland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4657486/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25367088; https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12793

Climate warming at high northern latitudes has caused substantial increases in plant productivity of tundra vegetation and an expansion of the range of deciduous shrub species. However significant the increase in carbon (C) contained within above-ground shrub biomass, it is modest in comparison with...