Future changes in vegetation and ecosystem function of the Barents Region

• Published in: Climatic Change
• Main Authors: Wolf, Annett, Callaghan, Terry V, Larson, Karin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2008
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Arctic; Kola Peninsula; Remo; albedo; barents region; Climate change; kola peninsula; Tundra
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1196937; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-007-9342-4

The dynamic vegetation model (LPJ-GUESS) is used to project transient impacts of changes in climate on vegetation of the Barents Region. We incorporate additional plant functional types, i.e. shrubs and defined different types of open ground vegetation, to improve the representation of arctic vegeta...