The Arctic Oscillation predicts effects of climate change in two trophic levels in a high-arctic ecosystem

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 445-453

  Aanes, Ronny ^a,b   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^b   Smith, Fiona M ^a   Cooper, Elisabeth J ^a   Wookey, Philip A ^c   Areøritsland, Nils ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Outhere AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Cassiope tetragona; Climate change; Plant herbivore interactions; Svalbard reindeer

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CASSIOPE; CASSIOPE TETRAGONA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; TETRAGONA;

EID: 0036097102     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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