Tundra vegetation effects on pan-Arctic albedo

By Michael M. Loranty, Scott J. Goetz, Pieter S. A. Beck. 2011

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The Environmental Research Letters publishing team would like to apologise to the authors of the above paper. Due to an inadvertent omission, the paper was published without the correct acknowledgments. This section should read: 'Funding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs-IPY (Grant 0732954), the NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Program (Grant NNX08AG13G), and the NOAA Global Carbon Cycle Program (Grant NA08OAR4310526). We wish to thank Yufang Jin, Jim Randerson, and two anonymous reviewers whose comments helped to improve the manuscript. We also acknowledge the MODIS Land Science Team for continued maintenance and development of the BRDF/Albedo products.'

Subfields: Atmospheric Science

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1. Pieter S. A. Beck
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3. Scott J. Goetz
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Citations in the corpus

• On the influence of shrub height and expansion on northern high latitude climate (2012, background): “Such changes in ecosystem structure may affect the biogeochemical and biophysical processes regulating the exchanges of energy, water and carbon between the biosphere and atmosphere (Loranty et al 2011).”
• The response of Arctic vegetation to the summer climate: relation between shrub cover, NDVI, surface albedo and temperature (2011, background): “…that examined differences in albedo between vegetation and climate zones across the Arctic during the snowmelt season, showed that subzone D had higher albedo than subzone E, presumably because of shrubs protruding through the snow layer in the more southern climate zone E (Loranty et al 2011).”
• Recent expansion of erect shrubs in the Low Arctic: evidence from Eastern Nunavik (2012, background): “For example, shrub expansion could result in lower albedo (Chapin et al 2005, Sturm et al 2005a, Loranty et al 2011, Blok et al 2011), greater snow accumulation, deeper active layer and higher summer evapotranspiration (Sturm et al 2001a, Liston et al 2002, Pomeroy et al 2006, Strack et al 2007,…”
• Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences (2011, background): “If widespread, a shift toward a greater dominance of shrubs might affect the carbon balance (Shaver et al 1992, Mack et al 2004) and radiation budget (Chapin et al 2005, Sturm et al 2005a, Loranty et al 2011) of the tundra biome, amongst others through shifts in fire activity (Higuera et al 2008).”