Winter Biological Processes Could Help Convert Arctic Tundra to Shrubland
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- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 55 (1) , 17-26
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0017:wbpchc]2.0.co;2
Abstract
In arctic Alaska, air temperatures have warmed 0.5 degrees Celsius (°C) per decade for the past 30 years, with most of the warming coming in winter.Keywords
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