Snow is an important control of plant community functional composition in oroarctic tundra

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: Happonen, Konsta, Aalto, Juha, Kemppinen, Julia, Niittynen, Pekka, Virkkala, Anna-Maria, Luoto, Miska
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
• Subjects: Community Ecology–Original Research; Arctic; Kilpisjärvi; Climate change; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825026/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31522244; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04508-8

The functional composition of plant communities is a critical modulator of climate change impacts on ecosystems, but it is not a simple function of regional climate. In the Arctic tundra, where climate change is proceeding the most rapidly, communities have not shifted their trait composition as pre...