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Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic

Sturm, Matthew, Racine, Charles, Tape, Kenneth·2001·Nature

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The warming of the Alaskan Arctic during the past 150 years has accelerated over the last three decades and is expected to increase vegetation productivity in tundra if shrubs become more abundant; indeed, this transition may already be under way according to local plot studies and remote sensing. Here we present evidence for a widespread increase in shrub abundance over more than 320 km of Arctic landscape during the past 50 years, based on a comparison of historic and modern aerial photographs. This expansion will alter the partitioning of energy in summer and the trapping and distribution of snow in winter, as well as increasing the amount of carbon stored in a region that is believed to be a net source of carbon dioxide.

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Authors: Sturm, M., Racine, C., & Tape, K.
Affiliations: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (US)
Corresponding author: Sturm, Matthew
ORCID: Sturm, Matthew
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2001-05
Volume: 411
Issue: 6837
Pages: 546-547
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/35079180
OpenAlex: W1488616880
Cited by: 1,349
References: 14
Citations by year: 2026: 28 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 57 · 2021: 65 · 2020: 82 · 2019: 47 · 2018: 62 · 2017: 63 · 2016: 71 · 2015: 66 · 2014: 54 · 2013: 81 · 2012: 76
FWCI: 22.59
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Climate change and permafrost
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Polar Research and Ecology
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Studies and Ecology
Keywords: shrub expansion, Arctic tundra, global warming, vegetation change, aerial photograph comparison, carbon storage, snow trapping, energy allocation, Arctic Alaska
MeSH terms: Arctic Regions, Climate, Plants

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