Warmer shorter winters disrupt arctic terrestrial ecosystems

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 271-295

  Cooper, Elisabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

climate change; growing season; ice; mild period; phenological mismatch; snow

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWING SEASON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84913597305     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091620     Document Type: Article

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