New paper in Nature: Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Scott Goetz and Logan Berner are co-authors on “Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome,” a paper out this year in Nature.

Goetz and Berner collaborated with scientists from institutions across the world to assess climate impacts on plant functional traits across the tundra biome and three decades of climate warming.

Read more via NAU’s In the Spotlight and read the full paper here.

Total change in temperature (b) and soil moisture (c) over the period 1989-2015. Predicted changes in height (d) and leaf nitrogen (e) over this same period.

 

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