Open tundra persist, but arctic features decline—Vegetation changes in the warming Fennoscandian tundra

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.13710" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.13710</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13710" target="_blank" >10.1111/gcb.13710</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Open tundra persist, but arctic features decline—Vegetation changes in the warming Fennoscandian tundra

Original language description

In the forest-tundra ecotone of the North Fennoscandian inland, summer and wintertemperatures have increased by two to three centigrades since 1965, which isexpected to result in major vegetation changes. To document the expected expan-sion of woodlands and scrublands and its impact on the arctic vegetation, werepeated a vegetation transect study conducted in 1976 in the Darju, spanning fromwoodland to a summit, 200 m above the tree line. Contrary to our expectations,tree line movement was not detected, and there was no increase in willows orshrubby mountain birches, either. Nevertheless, the stability of tundra was apparent.Small-sized, poorly competing arctic species had declined, lichen cover haddecreased, and vascular plants, especially evergreen ericoid dwarf shrubs, hadgained ground. The novel climate seems to favour competitive clonal species andspecies thriving in closed vegetation, creating a community hostile for seedlingestablishment, but equally hostile for many arctic species, too. Preventing trees andshrubs from invading the tundra is thus not sufficient for conserving arctic biota inthe changing climate. The only dependable cure is to stop the global warming.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10600 - Biological sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Change Biology

ISSN

1354-1013

e-ISSN

1365-2486

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

3794-3807

UT code for WoS article

000406812100030

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85019040390