Mycorrhizal networks: mechanisms, ecology and modelling

SW Simard, KJ Beiler, MA Bingham, JR Deslippe… - Fungal Biology …, 2012 - Elsevier
Mycorrhizal networks, defined as a common mycorrhizal mycelium linking the roots of at
least two plants, occur in all major terrestrial ecosystems. This review discusses the recent …

A review of open top chamber (OTC) performance across the ITEX Network

RD Hollister, C Elphinstone, GHR Henry… - Arctic …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Open top chambers (OTCs) were adopted as the recommended warming mechanism by the
International Tundra Experiment network in the early 1990s. Since then, OTCs have been …

Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

SM Natali, JD Watts, BM Rogers, S Potter… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent warming in the Arctic, which has been amplified during the winter 1, 2, 3, greatly
enhances microbial decomposition of soil organic matter and subsequent release of carbon …

Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra

C Plaza, E Pegoraro, R Bracho, G Celis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Evidence suggests that 5–15% of the vast pool of soil carbon stored in northern
permafrost ecosystems could be emitted as greenhouse gases by 2100 under the current …

Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

K Xue, M M. Yuan, Z J. Shi, Y Qin, YE Deng… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Microbial decomposition of soil carbon in high-latitude tundra underlain with permafrost is
one of the most important, but poorly understood, potential positive feedbacks of …

Woody plant encroachment intensifies under climate change across tundra and savanna biomes

M García Criado, IH Myers‐Smith… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biomes worldwide are shifting with global change. Biomes whose extents are limited by
temperature or precipitation, such as the tundra and savanna, may be particularly strongly …

Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

MM Loranty, BW Abbott, D Blok, TA Douglas… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Soils in Arctic and boreal ecosystems store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, a
portion of which may be released as high-latitude soils warm. Some of the uncertainty in the …

Warming of subarctic tundra increases emissions of all three important greenhouse gases–carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide

C Voigt, RE Lamprecht, ME Marushchak… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Rapidly rising temperatures in the Arctic might cause a greater release of greenhouse gases
(GHG s) to the atmosphere. To study the effect of warming on GHG dynamics, we deployed …

Increased plant productivity in Alaskan tundra as a result of experimental warming of soil and permafrost

SM Natali, EAG Schuur, RL Rubin - Journal of ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The response of northern tundra plant communities to warming temperatures is of critical
concern because permafrost ecosystems play a key role in global carbon (C) storage, and …

Nitrogen availability increases in a tundra ecosystem during five years of experimental permafrost thaw

VG Salmon, P Soucy, M Mauritz, G Celis… - Global Change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Perennially frozen soil in high latitude ecosystems (permafrost) currently stores 1330–1580
Pg of carbon (C). As these ecosystems warm, the thaw and decomposition of permafrost is …