Shorter flowering seasons and declining abundance of flower visitors in a warmer Arctic

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 759-763

  Høye, Toke T ^a   Post, Eric ^b   Schmidt, Niels M ^a   Trøjelsgaard, Kristian ^a   Forchhammer, Mads C ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLOWERING; PHENOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84880905463     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1909     Document Type: Article

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