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 …

Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions

LD Hinzman, ND Bettez, WR Bolton, FS Chapin… - Climatic change, 2005 - Springer
The Arctic climate is changing. Permafrost is warming, hydrological processes are changing
and biological and social systems are also evolving in response to these changing …

Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology

FS Chapin, PA Matson, HA Mooney, PM Vitousek - 2002 - Springer
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Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

BW Abbott, JB Jones, EAG Schuur… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
As the permafrost region warms, its large organic carbon pool will be increasingly
vulnerable to decomposition, combustion, and hydrologic export. Models predict that some …

Climate change meets habitat fragmentation: linking landscape and biogeographical scale levels in research and conservation

P Opdam, D Wascher - Biological conservation, 2004 - Elsevier
Climate change and habitat fragmentation are considered key pressures on biodiversity. In
this paper we explore the potential synergetic effects between these factors. We argue that …

Patterns and processes of global shrub expansion

AT Naito, DM Cairns - Progress in Physical Geography, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Shrub expansion is a global phenomenon that is occurring on savannas, rangelands, and
grasslands. In addition, this is an increasingly documented occurrence in the Arctic …

A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics

RE Keane, GJ Cary, ID Davies, MD Flannigan… - Ecological …, 2004 - Elsevier
A classification of spatial simulation models of fire and vegetation dynamics (landscape fire
succession models or LFSMs) is presented. The classification was developed to provide a …

Vulnerability of land systems to fire: Interactions among humans, climate, the atmosphere, and ecosystems

S Lavorel, MD Flannigan, EF Lambin… - Mitigation and Adaptation …, 2007 - Springer
Fires are critical elements in the Earth System, linking climate, humans, and vegetation. With
200–500 Mha burnt annually, fire disturbs a greater area over a wider variety of biomes than …

Spatially explicit modeling in ecology: a review

DL DeAngelis, S Yurek - Ecosystems, 2017 - Springer
The use of spatially explicit models (SEMs) in ecology has grown enormously in the past two
decades. One major advancement has been that fine-scale details of landscapes, and of …

[图书][B] Fundamentals of biogeography

RJ Huggett - 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive
introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation …