Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
17 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 29 11 2022
accepted: 06 03 2024
medline: 18 4 2024
pubmed: 18 4 2024
entrez: 17 4 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems are large reservoirs of organic carbon

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pubmed: 38632407
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07274-7
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07274-7
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

S L Maes (SL)

Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden. sybryn.maes@gmail.com.
Forest Ecology and Management Group (FORECOMAN), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. sybryn.maes@gmail.com.

J Dietrich (J)

Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.

G Midolo (G)

Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic.

S Schwieger (S)

Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

M Kummu (M)

Water and development research group, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

V Vandvik (V)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

R Aerts (R)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

I H J Althuizen (IHJ)

Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
NORCE Climate and Environment, Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bergen, Norway.

C Biasi (C)

Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

R G Björk (RG)

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden.

H Böhner (H)

Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

M Carbognani (M)

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

G Chiari (G)

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

C T Christiansen (CT)

Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

K E Clemmensen (KE)

Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

E J Cooper (EJ)

Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT-the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

J H C Cornelissen (JHC)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

B Elberling (B)

Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

P Faubert (P)

Carbone Boréal, Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada.

N Fetcher (N)

Institute for Environmental Science and Sustainability, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA.

T G W Forte (TGW)

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

J Gaudard (J)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

K Gavazov (K)

Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Z Guan (Z)

State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems and College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.

J Guðmundsson (J)

Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

R Gya (R)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

S Hallin (S)

Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

B B Hansen (BB)

Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway.
Gjærevoll Centre for Biodiversity Foresight Analyses & Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

S V Haugum (SV)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
The Heathland Centre, Alver, Norway.

J-S He (JS)

State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems and College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.

C Hicks Pries (C)

Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

M J Hovenden (MJ)

Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Australian Mountain Research Facility, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

M Jalava (M)

Water and development research group, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

I S Jónsdóttir (IS)

Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.

J Juhanson (J)

Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

J Y Jung (JY)

Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea.

E Kaarlejärvi (E)

Research Centre for Ecological Change, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

M J Kwon (MJ)

Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea.
Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

R E Lamprecht (RE)

University of Eastern Finland, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Kuopio, Finland.

M Le Moullec (M)

Gjærevoll Centre for Biodiversity Foresight Analyses & Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland.

H Lee (H)

NORCE, Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway.
Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

M E Marushchak (ME)

University of Eastern Finland, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Kuopio, Finland.

A Michelsen (A)

Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

T M Munir (TM)

Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

E M Myrsky (EM)

Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

C S Nielsen (CS)

Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
SEGES Innovation P/S, Aarhus, Denmark.

M Nyberg (M)

Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

J Olofsson (J)

Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

H Óskarsson (H)

Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

T C Parker (TC)

Ecological Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.

E P Pedersen (EP)

Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.
Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

M Petit Bon (M)

Department of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
Department of Arctic Biology, University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway.

A Petraglia (A)

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

K Raundrup (K)

Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland.

N M R Ravn (NMR)

Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

R Rinnan (R)

Center for Volatile Interactions, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

H Rodenhizer (H)

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

I Ryde (I)

Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

N M Schmidt (NM)

Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

E A G Schuur (EAG)

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

S Sjögersten (S)

School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, UK.

S Stark (S)

Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.

M Strack (M)

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

J Tang (J)

The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

A Tolvanen (A)

Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland.

J P Töpper (JP)

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Bergen, Norway.

M K Väisänen (MK)

Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

R S P van Logtestijn (RSP)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

C Voigt (C)

Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

J Walz (J)

Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.

J T Weedon (JT)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Y Yang (Y)

State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

H Ylänne (H)

School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.

M P Björkman (MP)

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden.

J M Sarneel (JM)

Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

E Dorrepaal (E)

Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.

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