[PCA] NEWS: Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Jun 5 07:43:48 CDT 2012
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/warming-arctic-tundra-producing-pop-up-forests/?ref=science
June 3, 2012, 1:02 pm
Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Even as insect infestations and other factors accompanying warming have
led to the "browning" of some stretches of boreal forest between temperate
regions and the Arctic tundra, the tundra appears to be greening in a big
way, various studies have shown. The newest such work, focused on scrubby
windswept regions along Russia's northwest Arctic coast, has found a
particularly noteworthy shift is under way.
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