Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift

LT Berner, SJ Goetz - Global change biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The boreal forest biome is a major component of Earth's biosphere and climate system that
is projected to shift northward due to continued climate change over the coming century …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic shrub expansion revealed by Landsat-derived multitemporal vegetation cover fractions in the Western Canadian Arctic

L Nill, I Grünberg, T Ullmann, M Gessner… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Warming induced shifts in tundra vegetation composition and structure, including
circumpolar expansion of shrubs, modifies ecosystem structure and functioning with …

Vegetation Index Research on the Basis of Tree-Ring Data: Current Status and Prospects

T Zhang, J Song, Y Fan, Y Liu, S Yu, D Guo, T Hou… - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and tree-ring parameters are commonly
used indicators in the research on forest ecology and responses to climate change. This …

The Arctic plant aboveground biomass synthesis dataset

LT Berner, KM Orndahl, M Rose, M Tamstorf… - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
Plant biomass is a fundamental ecosystem attribute that is sensitive to rapid climatic
changes occurring in the Arctic. Nevertheless, measuring plant biomass in the Arctic is …

Nitrogen fixing shrubs advance the pace of tall-shrub expansion in low-Arctic tundra

AIG Schore, JM Fraterrigo, VG Salmon… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Tall deciduous shrubs are critically important to carbon and nutrient cycling in high-latitude
ecosystems. As Arctic regions warm, shrubs expand heterogeneously across their ranges …

The Arctic

ML Druckenmiller, TA Moon… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Arctic is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2020 annual report and is available
from https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0086.1. Compiled by NOAA's National Centers for …

Shrub growth in the Alps diverges from air temperature since the 1990s

L Francon, C Corona, I Till-Bottraud… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In the European Alps, air temperature has increased almost twice as much as the
global average over the last century and, as a corollary, snow cover duration has decreased …

Global warming alters Himalayan alpine shrub growth dynamics and climate sensitivity

D Thakur, J Altman, V Jandová, P Fibich… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Global climate change is having significant effects on plant growth patterns and mountain
plants can be particularly vulnerable to accelerated warming. Rising temperatures are …

From Intra-plant to Regional Scale: June Temperatures and Regional Climates Directly and Indirectly Control Betula nana Growth in Arctic Alaska

A Buchwal, MS Bret-Harte, H Bailey, JM Welker - Ecosystems, 2023 - Springer
Tundra shrubs reflect climate sensitivities in their growth-ring widths, yet tissue-specific
shrub chronologies are poorly studied. Further, the relative importance of regional climate …