Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

  • Logan T. Berner,
  • Richard Massey,
  • Patrick Jantz,
  • Bruce C. Forbes,
  • Marc Macias-Fauria,
  • Isla Myers-Smith,
  • Timo Kumpula,
  • Gilles Gauthier,
  • Laia Andreu-Hayles,
  • Benjamin V. Gaglioti,
  • Patrick Burns,
  • Pentti Zetterberg,
  • Rosanne D’Arrigo,
  • Scott J. Goetz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18479-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Satellites provide clear evidence of greening trends in the Arctic, but high-resolution pan-Arctic quantification of these trends is lacking. Here the authors analyse high-resolution Landsat data to show widespread greening in the Arctic, and find that greening trends are linked to summer warming overall but not always locally.