Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate variation tested using the International Tundra Experiment
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Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate variation tested using the International Tundra Experiment.
The rapidly warming temperatures in high-latitude and alpine regions have the potential to alter the phenology of Arctic and alpine plants, affecting processes ranging from food webs to ecosystem trace gas fluxes. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was initiated in 1990 to evaluate the effects of expected rapid changes in temperature on tundra plant phenology, growth and community chang...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0481