Responses of Cassiope tetragona, a high Arctic evergreen dwarf shrub, to variations in growing season temperature and growing season length at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island

• Main Author: Johnstone, Jill F.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Dwarf shrubs > Northwest Territories > Ellesmere Island; Ecology > Northwest Territories > Ellesmere Island; Ellesmere Island (Nunavut) > Climate; Alexandra Fiord (Ellesmere Island; N.W.T.); Alexandra Fiord; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Cassiope tetragona; Climate change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3845

The short-term responses of Cassiope tetragona, a high arctic evergreen shrub, to variations in growing season climate were examined using experimental manipulations of temperature and growing season length at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island. Surface temperatures in the field were increased an ave...