Relationships between declining summer sea ice, increasing temperatures and changing vegetation in the Siberian Arctic tundra from MODIS time series (2000–11)

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Dutrieux, L.P., Bartholomeus, H., Herold, M., Verbesselt, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: alaska; amplification; carbon; climate-change; community; ecosystems; high-latitudes; ndvi; responses; shrub expansion; Arctic; Browning; Arctic Greening; Climate change; Sea ice; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/relationships-between-declining-summer-sea-ice-increasing-tempera; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044028

The concern about Arctic greening has grown recently as the phenomenon is thought to have significant influence on global climate via atmospheric carbon emissions. Earlier work on Arctic vegetation highlighted the role of summer sea ice decline in the enhanced warming and greening phenomena observed...