Ecosystem change and stability over multiple decades in the Swedish subarctic: Complex processes and multiple drivers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1624, 2013, Pages

  Callaghan, Terry V ^a,b   Jonasson, Christer ^a,c   Thierfelder, Tomas ^d   Yang, Zhenlin ^a,b   Hedenås, Henrik ^d   Johansson, Margareta ^a,e   Molau, Ulf ^f,g   van Bogaert, Rik ^h   Michelsen, Anders ⁱ   Olofsson, Johan ^j   Gwynn Jones, Dylan ^k   Bokhorst, Stef ^d   Phoenix, Gareth ^b   Bjerke, Jarle W ^l   Tømmervik, Hans ^l   Christensen, Torben R ^e,m   Hanna, Edward ^b   Koller, Eva K ^b,n   Sloan, Victoria L ^b,o  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Polar Research Secretariat   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^j UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^l NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^m Greenland Climate Research Centre   (Greenland)

ⁿ BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^o OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Ecosystem stability; Subarctic environment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPLEXITY; CRYOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; HERBIVORE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROCOSM; PERMAFROST; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; STAKEHOLDER; SUBARCTIC REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84879963792     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0488     Document Type: Article

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