Vegetation responses in Alaskan arctic tundra after 8 years of a summer warming and winter snow manipulation experiment

Long-term experimental manipulation of w

Long-term experimental manipulation of winter snow regime and summer temperature in arctic and alpine tundra

✍ M. D. Walker; D. A. Walker; J. M. Welker; A. M. Arft; T. Bardsley; P. D. Brooks; 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 799 KB

Three 60 m long, 2 . 8 m high snowfences have been erected to study long-term eects of changing winter snow conditions on arctic and alpine tundra. This paper describes the experimental design and short-term eects. Open-top ®berglass warming chambers are placed along the experimental snow gradients