In the News

Shrubs in the news:
Plants Duke It Out in a Warming Arctic – 15 January 2015
Tundra in Turmoil – Models and experiments only go so far in assessing the effects of climate change. For a reality check, researchers turn to historical photos. – 2 August 2013
Vegetation May Speed Warming of Arctic – 1 April 2013
The Greening of the Arctic is Underway – 31 March 2013
Nord mer likt syd: ny studie i Nature Climate Change – 19 March 2013
Climate change pushes vegetation zones hundreds of miles farther north – 12 March 2013
Some Resilience Seen in Northern and Tropical Flora in a Warming Climate – 11 March 2013
Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests – 3 June 2012
Telling changes on the tundra – 11 April 2012
Plant biomass in Arctic tundra has increased – 10 April 2012
Shrub height affects future Arctic climate and permafrost – 20 March 2012
Team monitoring disappearing tundra – 7 February 2012
Rise in Arctic shrubs likely to increase vulnerability of permafrost– 23 January 2012
Shrub Takeover One Sign of Arctic Change – 18 January 2012
Shrub Hub assesses growth in tundra ecosystems – 5 January 2012
Shrubbery on the March in Quebec – 10 December 2011

Other shrub links:
International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) http://www.geog.ubc.ca/itex/
PPS Arctic http://ppsarctic.nina.no/
Greening of the Arctic http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/goa/
Back to the Future http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=214