Rapid carbon turnover beneath shrub and tree vegetation is associated with low soil carbon stocks at a subarctic treeline

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Parker, Thomas, Subke, Jens-Arne, Wookey, Philip
• Other Authors: Biological and Environmental Sciences, orcid:0000-0002-3648-5316, orcid:0000-0001-9244-639X, orcid:0000-0001-5957-6424
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Blackwell 2015
• Subjects: Betula; carbon inventory; dwarf birch; ectomycorrhiza; gas flux; shrub expansion; soil carbon cycling; subarctic; Abisko; Arctic; Betula nana; Dwarf birch; Empetrum nigrum; Subarctic; Tundra; Lapland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22143; https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12793; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/22143/1/Parker_et_al-2015-Global_Change_Biology.pdf

Climate warming at high northern latitudes has caused substantial increases in plant productivity of tundra vegetation and an expansion of the range of deciduous shrub species. However significant the increase in carbon (C) contained within above-ground shrub biomass, it is modest in comparison with...