High Arctic summer warming tracked by increased Cassiope tetragona growth in the world's northernmost polar desert

Rapid climate warming has resulted in shrub expansion, mainly of erect deciduous shrubs in the Low Arctic, but the more extreme, sparsely vegetated, cold and dry High Arctic is generally considered to remain resistant to such shrub expansion in the next decades. Dwarf shrub dendrochronology may reve...

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Published in:	Global change biology 2017-11, Vol.23 (11), p.5006-5020
Main Authors:	Weijers, Stef, Buchwal, Agata, Blok, Daan, Löffler, Jörg, Elberling, Bo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Arctic region Atmospheric forcing Biologi Biological Sciences Canada Cassiope tetragona Climate Climate Change Climatic data Dendrochronology dendroecology Densification Deserts dwarf shrubs early twentieth‐century warming Ecology (including Biodiversity Conservation) Ekologi Ericaceae - growth & development Global warming Greenland Growing season Growth Hot Temperature ice meteorological data Natural Sciences Naturvetenskap North Atlantic Oscillation Ocean-atmosphere system Permafrost Records Seasons shrub expansion Shrubs Snow Snow cover snowpack soil moisture Summer temperature temperature proxy Thawing tundra variance Variance analysis Water supply Weather stations winter
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