TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-term legacies of seasonal extremes in Arctic ecosystem functioning
AU - Bokhorst, Stef
AU - Cornelissen, J. Hans C.
AU - Veraverbeke, Sander
N1 - This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Climate extremes may occur throughout the year with large consequences for ecosystem functioning and feedbacks. Early snowmelt and drought often precede arctic fires, which in turn may degrade permafrost and thereby influence ecosystem functioning for many years post-fire. Overwintering "zombie fires" in the Arctic, which smolder from one fire season into the next, examplify the complexity behind extreme events and their consequences. More generally, extreme events during one season may have extended legacies during subsequent seasons and years. These legacies depend on ecosystem characteristics and organismal traits. All of this plays out against a background of warming trends and changes in extreme weather phenomena during and outside the Arctic growing season with organisms that are evolutionarily adapted to strong but predictable seasonal patterns.
AB - Climate extremes may occur throughout the year with large consequences for ecosystem functioning and feedbacks. Early snowmelt and drought often precede arctic fires, which in turn may degrade permafrost and thereby influence ecosystem functioning for many years post-fire. Overwintering "zombie fires" in the Arctic, which smolder from one fire season into the next, examplify the complexity behind extreme events and their consequences. More generally, extreme events during one season may have extended legacies during subsequent seasons and years. These legacies depend on ecosystem characteristics and organismal traits. All of this plays out against a background of warming trends and changes in extreme weather phenomena during and outside the Arctic growing season with organisms that are evolutionarily adapted to strong but predictable seasonal patterns.
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U2 - 10.1111/gcb.16078
DO - 10.1111/gcb.16078
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 35007375
VL - 28
SP - 3161
EP - 3162
JO - Global Change Biology
JF - Global Change Biology
SN - 1354-1013
IS - 10
ER -