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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Authors: Bjorkman, A. D.; Myers-Smith, I. H.; Elmendorf, S. C.; Normand, S.; Ruger, N.; Beck, P. S. A.; Blach-Overgaard, A.; Blok, D.; Cornelissen, J. H. C.; Forbes, B. C.ORCID; Georges, D.; Blonder, B.ORCID
Year: 2018
Journal: Nature, Vol. 562, pp. 57-62
Publisher: UNKNOWN
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

Abstract

Biome-wide relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits across the tundra and over time show that community height increased with warming across all sites, whereas other traits lagged behind predicted rates of change.

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