Iain P. Hartley Mark H. Garnett Martin Sommerkorn David W. Hopkins Benjamin J. Fletcher Victoria L. Sloan Gareth K. Phoenix & Philip A. Wookey. A potential loss of carbon associated with greater plant growth in the European Arctic. Nature Climate Change 2012 2: 875–879 doi:10.1038-nclimate1575.
Abstract
Rapid warming is expected to increase plant growth in the Arctic1 and result in trees gradually colonizing tundra2. Models predict that enhanced carbon (C) storage in plant biomass may help offset atmospheric CO2 increases and reduce rates of climate change2 3 4. However in some Arctic ecosystems high plant productivity is associated with rapid cycling and low storage of soil C (refs 1 5
