Flowering and fruiting responses to climate change of two Arctic plant species, purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) and mountain avens (Dryas integrifolia)

• Main Authors: Panchen, Zoe, Gorelick, Root
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Tanquary Fiord; Climate change; Mountain avens; Purple saxifrage; Quttinirpaaq National Park; Saxifraga oppositifolia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/93888; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/AS-2015-0016

In temperate regions there are clear indications that spring flowering plants are flowering earlier due to rising temperatures of contemporary climate change. Temperatures in temperate regions are rising predominantly in spring. However, Arctic regions are seeing unprecedented temperature increases,...