Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

Q You, Z Cai, N Pepin, D Chen, B Ahrens, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

LT Berner, R Massey, P Jantz, BC Forbes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Arctic warming can influence tundra ecosystem function with consequences for climate
feedbacks, wildlife and human communities. Yet ecological change across the Arctic tundra …

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

IH Myers-Smith, JT Kerby, GK Phoenix… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread
greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic'is among the world's most important …

The polar regions in a 2 C warmer world

E Post, RB Alley, TR Christensen, M Macias-Fauria… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Over the past decade, the Arctic has warmed by 0.75° C, far outpacing the global average,
while Antarctic temperatures have remained comparatively stable. As Earth approaches 2° …

Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

TW Crowther, KEO Todd-Brown, CW Rowe… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The majority of the Earth's terrestrial carbon is stored in the soil. If anthropogenic warming
stimulates the loss of this carbon to the atmosphere, it could drive further planetary …

Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability

AWR Seddon, M Macias-Fauria, PR Long, D Benz… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The identification of properties that contribute to the persistence and resilience of
ecosystems despite climate change constitutes a research priority of global relevance. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

S Piao, H Nan, C Huntingford, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a proxy of
vegetation productivity, is known to be correlated with temperature in northern ecosystems …

Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

L Xu, RB Myneni, FS Chapin Iii, TV Callaghan… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Global temperature is increasing, especially over northern lands (> 50° N), owing to positive
feedbacks. As this increase is most pronounced in winter, temperature seasonality (ST) …

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

IH Myers-Smith, SC Elmendorf, PSA Beck… - Nature climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Rapid climate warming in the tundra biome has been linked to increasing shrub
dominance,,,. Shrub expansion can modify climate by altering surface albedo, energy and …