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Herschel Island summer field blog from 2014

September 1, 2014 | teamshrub

Check out the field research blog from last summer at the following link:

http://page21.org/blogs/106-herschel2014

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The Yukon Arctic coast and Qikiqtaruk are areas with ice-rich soil, frozen year round. As the growing seasons are getting longer and the temperatures are warmer in summer months, the landscape is changing. Slump D, the retrogressive thaw slump in this photo, is a very dynamic part of the Qikiqtaruk landscape, and the headwall is retreating more and more every year. We aim to determine how Arctic ecosystems respond to warming and how plants will change, in order to make predictions about how climate change will develop in the future. Is the Arctic is getting greener? How are new technologies enhancing research? Check out this article on the RGS website for more informationL https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/is-the-arctic-getting-greener/ Photo by Andrew Cunliffe #TeamShrub #inthefield2018 #Qikiqtaruk #uedinburgh #Arctic #ecology #dronestagram #drones #yukonterritory #northerncanada #exploreyukon #ukinarctic #arcticresearch @apecs.polar @polar.knowledge @rgs_ibg @edinunigeosciences @nercscience
Enter the world of willows. Journey to the south-west corner of the Yukon, to a land of glorious landscapes, shrubs and magic, where willows from the south and north live side by side… to a place that never existed (prior to 2014), to a time that is now (with a small blog posting delay). It is a world where a courageous team plants willows, living out an adventure that tests how shrubs grow in a warmer climate. Check out our blog to find out how the willows are growing in our common garden in the Yukon! By studying how willows grow in a warmer climate, we can better understand how tundra plant communities will change in the future. https://teamshrub.com/lab-blog/ Inspired by the 1988 movie “Willow”. Video footage by Noah Bell and Isla Myers-Smith, edited by Gergana Daskalova. #TeamShrub #Arctic #alpine #ecology #arcticresearch #ukinarctic #iDiv #tundra #plants #flora #plantsofinstagram #biogeography @edinburghuniversity @edinunigeosciences @apecs.polar @polar.knowledge
Sandra Angers-Blondin #TeamShrub student and now Dr. has defended her PhD! By reading between the rings of shrubs across the Canadian #Arctic, Sandra’s research has revealed the surprising lack of influence of competition on the climate sensitivity of #tundra shrubs. Here is an excerpt from her PhD: “My thesis highlights the complexity and variability of growth responses when using radial growth as an indicator of climate sensitivity. I detected this variability at multiple scales, from plant parts within an individual showing inconsistent climatic signals, to site-scale sensitivity responding to different facets of global change. I did not find strong or consistent influences of biotic and abiotic controls on the growth responses of tundra shrubs; however, these relationships may change over time as shrub densities continue to increase and exacerbate resource limitations. With 80% of tundra biomass potentially located below ground, understanding whole-plant and community-level responses to climate will be critical to improve projections of tundra plant community responses to global change.” @edinburghuniversity @edinunigeosciences. Video by Simon Sloan @simonsloan
Plant traits, such as height, leaf area and more, can help us understand how global change processes are reshaping plant communities across the #tundra biome. We are excited to share that the #OpenAcess "Tundra Trait Team" database of 92,000 tundra plant functional #traits is officially public! The Tundra Trait Team database can be used to address wide‐ranging theoretical and practical ecological questions. Identifying how traits vary across different environments can inform predictions of plant and ecosystem responses to global change. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2ORxkLT #TeamShrub #Arctic #alpine #ecology #arcticresearch #ukinarctic #iDiv #tundra #plants #flora #plantsofinstagram #biogeography @edinburghuniversity @edinunigeosciences @apecs.polar @polar.knowledge
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