Delayed postglacial colonization of Betula in Iceland and the circum North Atlantic [PDF]
eLife, 2023 As the Arctic continues to warm, woody shrubs are expected to expand northward. This process, known as ‘shrubification,’ has important implications for regional biodiversity, food web structure, and high-latitude temperature amplification.
David J Harning +9 more
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Shrub Encroachment Rewires Microbial Networks to Suppress Soil Organic Carbon Mineralization in Subalpine Meadows [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSubalpine meadow ecosystems have undergone widespread shrubification over the past century due to climate change and anthropogenic activities, yet the impacts on soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralization and temperature sensitivity (Q10) remain unclear ...
Pengli Hou +7 more
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Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems to rapid climate warming.
Zelalem A Mekonnen +13 more
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Topography and functional traits shape the distribution of key shrub plant functional types in low-Arctic tundra [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceThe expansion of shrubs in the Arctic tundra fundamentally modifies land-atmosphere interactions. However, it remains unclear how shrub distribution and expansion differ across key species due to challenges with discriminating tundra plant species at ...
Daryl Yang +21 more
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Arctic shrubification mediates the impacts of warming climate on changes to tundra vegetation
Environmental Research Letters, 2016 Climate change has been observed to expand distributions of woody plants in many areas of arctic and alpine environments—a phenomenon called shrubification.
Heidi K Mod, Miska Luoto
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Holocene chloroplast genetic variation of shrubs (Alnus alnobetula, Betula nana, Salix sp.) at the siberian tundra‐taiga ecotone inferred from modern chloroplast genome assembly and sedimentary ancient DNA analyses [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Climate warming alters plant composition and population dynamics of arctic ecosystems. In particular, an increase in relative abundance and cover of deciduous shrub species (shrubification) has been recorded. We inferred genetic variation of common shrub
Stefano Meucci +6 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Herbivores can exert a controlling effect on the reproduction and growth of shrubs, thereby counter‐acting the climate‐driven encroachment of shrubs in the Arctic and the potential consequences.
Miguel Villoslada +7 more
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Bilberry Expansion in the Changing Subalpine Belt [PDF]
PlantsBilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) expansion in subalpine and alpine ecosystems is increasing due to climate change and reduced land management. This review examines bilberry traits, environmental responses, and ecosystem impacts.
Miroslav Zeidler, Marek Banaš
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Environmental Research Letters, 2013 One major challenge to the improvement of regional climate scenarios for the northern high latitudes is to understand land surface feedbacks associated with vegetation shifts and ecosystem biogeochemical cycling.
Wenxin Zhang +5 more
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Decreasing carbon allocation belowground in alpine meadow soils by shrubification
GeodermaDistribution of shrubs expanding in grasslands – shrubification – is ongoing worldwide in grasslands and is common on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). But the consequences of shrubification for plant carbon (C) input and fate in soil are unclear.
Xiao Ming Mou +9 more
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