Summer litter decomposition is moderated by scale-dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems

• Main Author: Gallois, Elise
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Decomposition; Tundra; tea bag index; litter; microclimate; Temperature; moisture; Climate change; ecosystem change; carbon cycling; Active layer thickness; Herschel; Herschel Island; permafrost; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsv29

Tundra soils are one of the world's largest organic carbon stores, yet this carbon is vulnerable to accelerated decomposition as climate warming progresses. The landscape-scale controls of litter decomposition are poorly understood in tundra ecosystems, which hinders our understanding of the gl...