Arctic browning: extreme events and trends reversing arctic greening

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2960-2962

  Phoenix, Gareth K ^a   Bjerke, Jarle W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; PLANT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; PLANTS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 85027936134     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13261     Document Type: Note

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