Permafrost and climate change: carbon cycle feedbacks from the warming Arctic

EAG Schuur, BW Abbott, R Commane… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Rapid Arctic environmental change affects the entire Earth system as thawing permafrost
ecosystems release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding how much …

Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

P De Frenne, J Lenoir, M Luoto… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand
and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate …

Exceeding 1.5 C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

DI Armstrong McKay, A Staal, JF Abrams… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Climate tipping points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-
perpetuating beyond a warming threshold, leading to substantial Earth system impacts …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

LT Berner, R Massey, P Jantz, BC Forbes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Arctic warming can influence tundra ecosystem function with consequences for climate
feedbacks, wildlife and human communities. Yet ecological change across the Arctic tundra …

Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, TM Lenton, JW Gregg, SM Natali… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Many feedback loops significantly increase warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
However, not all of these feedbacks are fully accounted for in climate models. Thus …

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

IH Myers-Smith, JT Kerby, GK Phoenix… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread
greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic'is among the world's most important …

[HTML][HTML] Vegetation greening, extended growing seasons, and temperature feedbacks in warming temperate grasslands of China

X Shen, B Liu, M Henderson, L Wang… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Vegetation activity and phenology are significantly affected by climate change, and changes
in vegetation activity and phenology can in turn affect regional or global climate patterns. As …

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

GT Pecl, MB Araújo, JD Bell, J Blanchard… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The success of human societies depends intimately on the living
components of natural and managed systems. Although the geographical range limits of …

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

AD Bjorkman, IH Myers-Smith, SC Elmendorf… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential
ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and …