Arctic browning: Impacts of extreme climatic events on heathland ecosystem CO(2) fluxes

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Treharne, Rachael, Bjerke, Jarle W., Tømmervik, Hans, Stendardi, Laura, Phoenix, Gareth K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
• Subjects: Primary Research Articles; Arctic; Browning
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379734/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30474169; https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14500

Extreme climatic events are among the drivers of recent declines in plant biomass and productivity observed across Arctic ecosystems, known as “Arctic browning.” These events can cause landscape‐scale vegetation damage and so are likely to have major impacts on ecosystem CO(2) balance. However, ther...