Long-term warming restructures Arctic tundra without changing net soil carbon storage

Seeta A. Sistla (), John C. Moore, Rodney T. Simpson, Laura Gough, Gaius R. Shaver and Joshua P. Schimel
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Seeta A. Sistla: Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara
John C. Moore: Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Rodney T. Simpson: Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Laura Gough: University of Texas at Arlington
Gaius R. Shaver: The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Joshua P. Schimel: Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara

Nature, 2013, vol. 497, issue 7451, 615-618

Abstract: Two decades of summer warming in an Alaskan tundra ecosystem increased plant biomass and woody dominance, indirectly increased winter soil temperature, homogenized the soil trophic structure and suppressed surface-soil-decomposer activity, but did not change net soil carbon or nitrogen storage.

Date: 2013
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