Data from: Experimental icing affects growth, mortality, and flowering in a high Arctic dwarf shrub

• Main Authors: Milner, Jos M., Varpe, Øystein, van der Wal, René, Hansen, Brage Bremset
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) 2016
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Cassiope tetragona; Resource allocation; Anoxia tolerance; winter warming; extreme weather event; climate change; Arctic; Svalbard; Spitzbergen; Bolterdalen; Adventdalen; 78°16’N; 15°99’E; envir; geo; Arctic bell-heather; Climate change; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.512s7

Effects of climate change are predicted to be greatest at high latitudes, with more pronounced warming in winter than summer. Extreme mid-winter warm spells and heavy rain-on-snow events are already increasing in frequency in the Arctic, with implications for snow-pack and ground-ice formation. Thes...