Reduced arctic tundra productivity linked with landform and climate change interactions

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Lara, Mark J., Nitze, Ingmar, Grosse, Guido, Martin, Philip, McGuire, A. David
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Browning; Arctic Greening; Climate change; permafrost; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799341/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29402988; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20692-8

Arctic tundra ecosystems have experienced unprecedented change associated with climate warming over recent decades. Across the Pan-Arctic, vegetation productivity and surface greenness have trended positively over the period of satellite observation. However, since 2011 these trends have slowed cons...