Sunday, March 07, 2021

February 1, 2021
Out of UC Davis

Species Salix glauca (click here) or Gray Willow of Greenland.

A 15-year experiment on Arctic shrubs in Greenland (click here) lends new understanding to an enduring ecological puzzle: How do species with similar needs and life histories occur together at large scales while excluding each other at small scales? The answer to this question has important implications for how climate change might shift species' distributions across the globe.

The study was published today in the journal PNAS and led by the University of California, Davis. Its findings also reveal trends related to carbon sequestration and carbon exchange as the Arctic becomes both greener and browner....