Nature Communications (Jun 2021)
Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants
- Courtney G. Collins,
- Sarah C. Elmendorf,
- Robert D. Hollister,
- Greg H. R. Henry,
- Karin Clark,
- Anne D. Bjorkman,
- Isla H. Myers-Smith,
- Janet S. Prevéy,
- Isabel W. Ashton,
- Jakob J. Assmann,
- Juha M. Alatalo,
- Michele Carbognani,
- Chelsea Chisholm,
- Elisabeth J. Cooper,
- Chiara Forrester,
- Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir,
- Kari Klanderud,
- Christopher W. Kopp,
- Carolyn Livensperger,
- Marguerite Mauritz,
- Jeremy L. May,
- Ulf Molau,
- Steven F. Oberbauer,
- Emily Ogburn,
- Zoe A. Panchen,
- Alessandro Petraglia,
- Eric Post,
- Christian Rixen,
- Heidi Rodenhizer,
- Edward A. G. Schuur,
- Philipp Semenchuk,
- Jane G. Smith,
- Heidi Steltzer,
- Ørjan Totland,
- Marilyn D. Walker,
- Jeffrey M. Welker,
- Katharine N. Suding
Affiliations
- Courtney G. Collins
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- Sarah C. Elmendorf
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- Robert D. Hollister
- Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University
- Greg H. R. Henry
- Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
- Karin Clark
- Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories
- Anne D. Bjorkman
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
- Isla H. Myers-Smith
- School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh
- Janet S. Prevéy
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Isabel W. Ashton
- National Park Service, Inventory & Monitoring Division
- Jakob J. Assmann
- Department of Biology, Aarhus University
- Juha M. Alatalo
- Environmental Science Center, Qatar University
- Michele Carbognani
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma
- Chelsea Chisholm
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH
- Elisabeth J. Cooper
- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, The Arctic University of Norway UiT
- Chiara Forrester
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir
- Department of Life- and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland
- Kari Klanderud
- Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Christopher W. Kopp
- Biodiversity Research Center, University of British Columbia
- Carolyn Livensperger
- National Park Service, Capitol Reef National Park
- Marguerite Mauritz
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso
- Jeremy L. May
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
- Ulf Molau
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
- Steven F. Oberbauer
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
- Emily Ogburn
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- Zoe A. Panchen
- Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
- Alessandro Petraglia
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma
- Eric Post
- Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, University of California Davis
- Christian Rixen
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Heidi Rodenhizer
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University
- Edward A. G. Schuur
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University
- Philipp Semenchuk
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, The University of Vienna
- Jane G. Smith
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- Heidi Steltzer
- Department of Environment and Sustainability, Fort Lewis College
- Ørjan Totland
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Bergen
- Marilyn D. Walker
- HOMER Energy by UL
- Jeffrey M. Welker
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alaska Anchorage
- Katharine N. Suding
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23841-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
It is unclear whether climate driven phenological shifts of tundra plants are consistent across the plant growing season. Here the authors analyse data from a network of field warming experiments in Arctic and alpine tundra, finding that warming differentially affects the timing and duration of reproductive and vegetative phenology.
