Despite the importance of high-latitude surface energy budgets for land-climate interactions in the rapidly changing Arctic, uncertainties in their prediction persist.
Tag - Arctic
Dale Maylea
Eurekalert
Effects of warming and N addition on seedling establishment in tundra
Climate change is expected to cause (sub)arctic plant species to move polewards to track their climatic niche. However, rapid migration requires recruitment from seed, which is rare in arctic regions where most plants...
AoBPLANTS
Responses of lichen communities to 18 years of natural and experimental warming
Species richness and effective number of species decreased under experimental warming in meadow environments.
botanyone
Skating on thin ice..?
It seems we can expect the Arctic to go green in future years - but that won't be good news for species threatened by Climate Change.
Nigel Chaffey
Plant conservation genetics in an Arctic archipelago
Small and peripheral populations often contain low levels of genetic variation. This may limit their ability to adapt to environmental change, including climate warming. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS...
Can kelp help halt human hubris?
If we hope kelp is going to mitigate climate change, then we might need to think again about over-fishing and kelp harvesting.
Population genetics of purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia L.) in the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard
The genetic characteristics of species impact their capacity to maintain populations and colonize new areas, and the presence of genetic diversity is especially important for plant populations in highly stochastic...
That sinking feeling…
Whilst forests – aided and abetted by cryptogams (see my previous post) – have a major role as biotic carbon sinks on land, in the oceans that role is largely down to the activity of cryptogamous phytoplankton, which...
Rejoice, ‘tis the real Bloom’s Day (to be sure…)
June 16th is the date upon which certain individuals around the world celebrate Irish writer James Joyce’s 1904-set literary classic Ulysses. Termed Bloom’s Day – after Leopold Bloom, the famously impenetrable novel’s...
