Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 887-891

  Myers Smith, Isla H ^a   Elmendorf, Sarah C ^b,c   Beck, Pieter S A ^d,e   Wilmking, Martin ^f   Hallinger, Martin ^f,g   Blok, Daan ^h   Tape, Ken D ⁱ   Rayback, Shelly A ^j   Macias Fauria, Marc ^k   Forbes, Bruce C ^l   Speed, James D M ^m   Boulanger Lapointe, Noémie ^n,o   Rixen, Christian ^p   Lévesque, Esther ⁿ   Schmidt, Niels Martin ^q   Baittinger, Claudia ^r   Trant, Andrew J ^s,t   Hermanutz, Luise ^t   Collier, Laura Siegwart ^t   Dawes, Melissa A ^p   Lantz, Trevor C ^s   Weijers, Stef ^u   JØrgensen, Rasmus Halfdan ^h   Buchwal, Agata ^v   Buras, Allan ^f   Naito, Adam T ^w   Ravolainen, Virve ^x   Schaepman Strub, Gabriela ^y   Wheeler, Julia A ^p,z   Wipf, Sonja ^p   Guay, Kevin C ^e   Hik, David S ^aa   Vellend, Mark ^ab   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^m NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

ⁿ UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^p WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^q AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^r National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

^s UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^t MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^u UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^v ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^w TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^y UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^z UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^ab UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DOMINANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; PERMAFROST; RANGE EXPANSION; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; THAWING; TIME SERIES; TUNDRA; WATER BUDGET;

NORTH AMERICA;

ALNUS; SALIX;

EID: 84939803773     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2697     Document Type: Article

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