Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

MMPD Heijmans, RÍ Magnússon, MJ Lara… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tundra vegetation productivity and composition are responding rapidly to climatic changes
in the Arctic. These changes can, in turn, mitigate or amplify permafrost thaw. In this Review …

Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tipping elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tipping elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Forest growth in Europe shows diverging large regional trends

H Pretzsch, M Del Río, C Arcangeli, K Bielak… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Forests cover about one-third of Europe's surface and their growth is essential for climate
protection through carbon sequestration and many other economic, environmental, and …

Asymmetric impacts of diurnal warming on vegetation carbon sequestration of marshes in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau

X Shen, Y Liu, J Zhang, Y Wang, R Ma… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the world's Third Pole, the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau has a large area of marshes, which
plays an important role in global carbon cycle. The net primary productivity (NPP) of …

A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests

Y Pan, RA Birdsey, J Fang, R Houghton, PE Kauppi… - science, 2011 - science.org
The terrestrial carbon sink has been large in recent decades, but its size and location remain
uncertain. Using forest inventory data and long-term ecosystem carbon studies, we estimate …

The impact of the permafrost carbon feedback on global climate

K Schaefer, H Lantuit, VE Romanovsky… - Environmental …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Degrading permafrost can alter ecosystems, damage infrastructure, and release enough
carbon dioxide (CO 2) and methane (CH 4) to influence global climate. The permafrost …

Global climate change impacts in the United States, A State of Knowledge Report

TR Karl, CN Williams Jr, PJ Young… - New York, New York …, 2009 - hero.epa.gov
The report summarizes the science and the impacts of climate change on the United States,
now and in the future. It focuses on climate change impacts in different regions of the US and …

Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology

FS Chapin, PA Matson, HA Mooney, PM Vitousek - 2002 - Springer
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Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

AD Richardson, T Andy Black… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We use eddy covariance measurements of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) from 21
FLUXNET sites (153 site-years of data) to investigate relationships between phenology and …

Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: Implications for the global carbon cycle

EAG Schuur, J Bockheim, JG Canadell… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Thawing permafrost and the resulting microbial decomposition of previously frozen organic
carbon (C) is one of the most significant potential feedbacks from terrestrial ecosystems to …