Tundra shrubification and tree-line advance amplify arctic climate warming: Results from an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Wenxin ^a   Miller, Paul A ^a   Smith, Benjamin ^a   Wania, Rita ^b   Koenigk, Torben ^c   Döscher, Ralf ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Rossby Centre Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute ^*  (Austria)

^c SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DYNAMIC VEGETATION MODEL; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; NORTHERN EURASIA; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM;

FORESTRY;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; METHANE; PHENOLOGY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHRUB; SUBARCTIC REGION; TREELINE; TUNDRA; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; WETLANDS;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; SIBERIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84885662284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034023     Document Type: Article

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