Climate change: Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic

By M. Sturm, C. Racine, K. Tape. Nature, 2001

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Carbon cycling in peatlands A review of processes and controls (2002, background): “…invasion of vascular plants in areas that have been previously devoid of them, as is currently occurring in the subarctic of Northwestern Canada (Sturm et al. 2001), and changes in fire frequency and deterioration of permafrost can also alter C cycling of peatlands in the long term (Robinson…”
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services (2005, background): “For example, the increase in shrub density in Arctic tundra in response to regional warming (Sturm et al. 2001) has reduced regional albedo and increased regional heating (Chapin et al.”
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change (2006, background): “Field studies, experimentation, and modeling link this major community shift to warming air temperatures, increased snow cover, and increased soil microbial activity (Chapin et al. 1995; Sturm et al. 2001, 2005).”
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead? (2015, background): “E-mail: aimee.classen@snm.ku.dk”
Potential Effects of Climate Change on Treeline Position in the Swedish Mountains (2004, background): “This may be a general phenomenon in subArctic and Arctic sites, as a widespread increase in shrub abundance, covering more than 320 km2, has been shown from Alaska (Sturm et al. 2001).”
Vegetation of Eurasia from the last glacial maximum to present: Key biogeographic patterns (2017, background): “So-called “arctic greening” has been widely reported (e.g., Sturm et al., 2001; Goetz et al., 2005; Forbes et al., 2010), and its consequences include modification of the land-surface feedback to climate (e.g., Chae et al., 2015).”
Permafrost response to increasing Arctic shrub abundance depends on the relative influence of shrubs on local soil cooling versus large-scale climate warming (2011, background): “Among the environmental changes that have been observed is an increase in shrub abundance across much of the Arctic tundra (Sturm et al 2001b, Goetz et al 2005, Tape et al 2006), consistent with experimental warming studies which indicate that both the height and coverage of deciduous shrubs…”
Interactive effects of anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity (2013, background): “In the Arctic, warming has contributed to dramatic increases in shrub cover, as documented by aerial photographs at thousands of locations between the Brooks Range and the Arctic Coast in 1948–1950 and later in 1999–2000 (Sturm et al. 2001).”
Response of green alder (Alnus viridis subsp. fruticosa) patch dynamics and plant community composition to fire and regional temperature in north‐western Canada (2010, background): “There is growing evidence that tall shrubs are becoming a more dominant component of low Arctic ecosystems, but the mechanisms driving landscape-level shrub encroachment are not well understood (Silapaswan et al., 2001; Sturm et al., 2001; Jia et al., 2003; Stow et al., 2004; Tape et al., 2006).”
Long‐term experimental manipulation of climate alters the ectomycorrhizal community of Betula nana in Arctic tundra (2011, background): “Differences in the relative productivity of tundra species have led to ecosystem-scale changes in plant community composition characterized by the expansion of shrubs (Hobbie, 1996; Sturm et al., 2001) and the con- sequent decline of mosses and evergreen ericaceous species.”