Status and trends in Arctic vegetation: Evidence from experimental warming and long-term monitoring
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Changes in Arctic vegetation can have important implications for trophic interactions and ecosystem functioning leading to climate feedbacks. Plot-based vegetation surveys provide detailed insight into vegetation changes at sites around the Arctic and improve our ability to predict the impacts of environmental change on tundra ecosystems. Here, we review studies of changes in plant community composition and phenology from both long-term monitoring and warming experiments in Arctic environments. We find that Arctic plant communities and species are generally sensitive to warming, but trends over a period of time are heterogeneous and complex and do not always mirror expectations based on responses to experimental manipulations. Our findings highlight the need for more geographically widespread, integrated, and comprehensive monitoring efforts that can better resolve the interacting effects of warming and other local and regional ecological factors.
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Changing vegetation diversity, abundance, composition, and phenology in the Arctic are well documented.
“Changing vegetation diversity, abundance, composition, and phenology in the Arctic are all well documented (Sturm et al. 2001; Walker et al. 2006; Bjørkman et al. 2020).”
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The Introduction and Results (page numbers unavailable) document studies of Arctic vegetation composition, abundance, and phenology. But the Introduction says published observations of diversity change are relatively scarce, and “Other vegetation trends: functional traits and diversity” calls the evidence mixed. The source therefore does not support saying that changes in all four attributes are well documented. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Authors
- Bjorkman, A. D., García Criado, M., Myers-Smith, I. H., Ravolainen, V., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Westergaard, K. B., Lawler, J. P., Aronsson, M., Bennett, B., Gardfjell, H., Heiðmarsson, S., Stewart, L., & Normand, S.
- Affiliations
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Norwegian Polar Institute (NO)
- University of Iceland (IS)
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NO)
- National Park Service (US)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
- Náttúrufræðistofnun (IS)
- Corresponding author
- Bjorkman, Anne D.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Ambio
- Published
- 2019-03-30
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 678-692
- ISSN
- 0044-7447 (ISSN-L)
- 1654-7209
- PMC
- PMC6989703
- OpenAlex
- W2929963482
- Cited by
- 230
- References
- 108
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 7
- FWCI
- 9.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- AMBIO (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/M016323/1)
- Villum Fonden (VKR023456)
- Natur og Univers, Det Frie Forskningsr?d (DFF 4181-00565)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Climate change and permafrost
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Polar Research and Ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Keywords
- Arctic vegetation, tundra ecosystems, experimental warming, long-term vegetation monitoring, floristic composition, phenology, climate change impacts, climate feedbacks, vegetation change trends
- MeSH terms
- Arctic Regions, Plants, Seasons, Ecosystem, Climate Change, Tundra
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