Frequent long-distance plant colonization in the changing arctic

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5831, 2007, Pages 1606-1609

  Alsos, Inger Greve ^a,e   Eidesen, Pernille Bronken ^a   Ehrich, Dorothee ^a   Skrede, Inger ^a   Westergaard, Kristine ^a,b   Jacobsen, Gro Hilde ^a   Landvik, Jon Y ^c   Taberlet, Pierre ^d   Brochmann, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROPAGULE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ICE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANGIOSPERMS; ARABIS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BETULA; COLD CLIMATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOSYSTEM; ERICACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSALES; SALIX; VARIATION (GENETICS); WIND;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 34250800385     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139178     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank our many colleagues and field assistants (table 51) for help with providing plant samples; the authorities in various regions for collection permits and help with field logistics; L. G. Kvernstuen for laboratory assistance; B. E. Sandbakk for photographs; A. Tribsch, P. Schönswetter, R. Elven, and L. Bachmann for discussions; and W. Thuiller, I. Till-Bottraud, K. Kovacs, and three anonymous referees for valuable comments on the manuscript. Part of the material was obtained by means of the Tundra North-West (TNW) 1999 and the Beringia 2005 expeditions funded by the Polar Research Secretariat at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The main work was funded by grant 150322/720 to Brochmann from the Research Council of Norway. Additional grants to Westergaard were obtained from K. and H. Jakobsens Fund, King Haakon VII Educational Fund, Roald Amundsen's Centre for Arctic Research, KOMETEN, and Tromsø University Museum.