Multi-decadal changes in tundra environments and ecosystems: Synthesis of the international Polar year-back to the future project (IPY-BTF)

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 705-716

  Callaghan, Terry V ^a,b   Tweedie, Craig E ^c   Åkerman, Jonas ^d   Andrews, Christopher ^d   Bergstedt, Johan ^d   Butler, Malcolm G ^d   Christensen, Torben R ^d   Cooley, Dorothy ^d   Dahlberg, Ulrika ^d   Danby, Ryan K ^d   Daniëls, Fred J A ^d   De Molenaar, Johannes G ^d   Dick, Jan ^d   Mortensen, Christian Ebbe ^d   Ebert May, Diane ^d   Emanuelsson, Urban ^d   Eriksson, Håkan ^d   Hedenås, Henrik ^d   Henry, Greg H R ^d   Hik, David S ^d   Hobbie, John E ^d   Jantze, Elin J ^d   Jaspers, Cornelia ^d   Johansson, Cecilia ^d   Johansson, Margareta ^d   Johnson, David R ^d   Johnstone, Jill F ^d   Jonasson, Christer ^d   Kennedy, Catherine ^d   Kenney, Alice J ^d   Keuper, Frida ^d   Koh, Saewan ^d   Krebs, Charles J ^d   Lantuit, Hugues ^d   Lara, Mark J ^d   Lin, David ^d   Lougheed, Vanessa L ^d   Madsen, Jesper ^d   Matveyeva, Nadya ^d   Mcewen, Daniel C ^d   Myers Smith, Isla H ^d   Narozhniy, Yuriy K ^d   Olsson, Håkan ^d   Pohjola, Veijo A ^d   Price, Larry W ^d   Rigét, Frank ^d   Rundqvist, Sara ^d   Sandström, Anneli ^d   Tamstorf, Mikkel ^d   Bogaert, Rik Van ^d   Villarreal, Sandra ^d   Webber, Patrick J ^d   Zemtsov, Valeriy A ^d   more..

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Glaciers; IPY; Limnology; Permafrost; Shrubs; Snow stratigraphy; Treeline; Tundra vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL RECORD; LIMNOLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMAFROST; PLANT COMMUNITY; POND; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; SHRUB; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SUBARCTIC REGION; SUSTAINABILITY; TREELINE; TUNDRA; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ARCTIC; CANADA; COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; GREENLAND; HERSCHEL ISLAND; NIWOT RIDGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; YUKON TERRITORY;

ANSER;

EID: 80052542688     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0179-8     Document Type: Article

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