Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

MMPD Heijmans, RÍ Magnússon, MJ Lara… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tundra vegetation productivity and composition are responding rapidly to climatic changes
in the Arctic. These changes can, in turn, mitigate or amplify permafrost thaw. In this Review …

[HTML][HTML] 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] Vegetation response to precipitation anomalies under different climatic and biogeographical conditions in China

Z Chen, W Wang, J Fu - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding precipitation-vegetation interaction is of great importance to implementing
adaptation and mitigation measures for terrestrial ecosystems. Many studies have explored …

Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline

A Buchwal, PF Sullivan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) is declining at an accelerating rate with a wide range of ecological
consequences. However, determining sea ice effects on tundra vegetation remains a …

Arctic shrub growth trajectories differ across soil moisture levels

D Ackerman, D Griffin, SE Hobbie… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The circumpolar expansion of woody deciduous shrubs in arctic tundra alters key ecosystem
properties including carbon balance and hydrology. However, landscape‐scale patterns …

Remote sensing of landscape change in permafrost regions

MT Jorgenson, G Grosse - Permafrost and periglacial …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Amplification of global warming in Arctic and boreal regions is causing significant changes
to permafrost‐affected landscapes. The nature and extent of the change is complicated by …

Assessing the effects of earlier snow melt-out on alpine shrub growth: the sooner the better?

L Francon, C Corona, I Till-Bottraud, P Choler… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Enhanced shrub growth in a warming alpine climate has potential far-reaching implications,
including soil nutrient cycling, carbon storage, or water and surface energy exchanges …

On the suitability of using vegetation indices to monitor the response of Africa's terrestrial ecoregions to drought

S Lawal, B Hewitson, TS Egbebiyi, A Adesuyi - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drought remains one of the world's most devastating phenomena, exhibiting impacts in both
magnitude and frequency. African vegetation remains highly vulnerable to drought impacts …

Declining growth of deciduous shrubs in the warming climate of continental western Greenland

CM Gamm, PF Sullivan, A Buchwal, RJ Dial… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Observational and experimental studies have generally shown that warming is associated
with greater growth and abundance of deciduous shrubs in arctic ecosystems. It is uncertain …