Advancing plant phenology and reduced herbivore production in a terrestrial system associated with sea ice decline

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kerby, Jeffrey T ^a   Post, Eric ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH MODELING; HERBIVORE; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DECLINE; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SEA ICE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC TUNDRA; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; GREENLAND; HERBIVORE; PHENOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEA ICE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GREENLAND; HERBIVORY; ICE COVER; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REINDEER; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84885104854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3514     Document Type: Article

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