Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation
We present a focus issue of Environmental Research Letters on the ‘Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation’. The focus issue includes three perspective articles (Verbyla 2011 Environ. Res. Lett. 6 041003, Williams et al 2011 Environ. Res. Lett. 6 041004, Loranty and Goetz 2012 Environ. R...
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| description | We present a focus issue of Environmental Research Letters on the ‘Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation’. The focus issue includes three perspective articles (Verbyla 2011 Environ. Res. Lett. 6 041003, Williams et al 2011 Environ. Res. Lett. 6 041004, Loranty and Goetz 2012 Environ. Res. Lett. 7 011005) and 22 research articles. The focus issue arose as a result of heightened interest in the response of high-latitude vegetation to natural and anthropogenic changes in climate and disturbance regimes, and the consequences that these vegetation changes might have for northern ecosystems. A special session at the December 2010 American Geophysical Union Meeting on the ‘Greening of the Arctic’ spurred the call for papers. Many of the resulting articles stem from intensive research efforts stimulated by International Polar Year projects and the growing acknowledgment of ongoing climate change impacts in northern terrestrial ecosystems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf460284753c4794bd83029bfcfcaee22023-08-09T14:26:06ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262013-01-018101504010.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015040Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetationHoward E Epstein0Isla Myers-Smith1Donald A Walker2University of Virginia , Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123, USAUniversity of Alberta , Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, CanadaUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks , Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000, USAWe present a focus issue of Environmental Research Letters on the ‘Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation’. The focus issue includes three perspective articles (Verbyla 2011 Environ. Res. Lett. 6 041003, Williams et al 2011 Environ. Res. Lett. 6 041004, Loranty and Goetz 2012 Environ. Res. Lett. 7 011005) and 22 research articles. The focus issue arose as a result of heightened interest in the response of high-latitude vegetation to natural and anthropogenic changes in climate and disturbance regimes, and the consequences that these vegetation changes might have for northern ecosystems. A special session at the December 2010 American Geophysical Union Meeting on the ‘Greening of the Arctic’ spurred the call for papers. Many of the resulting articles stem from intensive research efforts stimulated by International Polar Year projects and the growing acknowledgment of ongoing climate change impacts in northern terrestrial ecosystems.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015040arctic tundraboreal forestremote sensingshrub expansionvegetation dynamics |
| spellingShingle | Howard E Epstein Isla Myers-Smith Donald A Walker Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation Environmental Research Letters arctic tundra boreal forest remote sensing shrub expansion vegetation dynamics |
| title | Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation |
| title_full | Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation |
| title_fullStr | Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation |
| title_short | Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation |
| title_sort | recent dynamics of arctic and sub arctic vegetation |
| topic | arctic tundra boreal forest remote sensing shrub expansion vegetation dynamics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015040 |
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