Environmental impacts on gas exchange in Arctic tundra plants
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The Arctic is warming at rapid, unprecedented rates, causing cascading ecological and environmental changes that threaten to destabilize the vast amounts of carbon stored in the vegetation and soils of the tundra. These changes include increased ambient temperatures, expanded woody shrub cover and deeper thaw depth, which collectively alter the soil nutrient status in the historically nitrogen and phosphorus limited environment.
My dissertation research, conducted at Toolik Lake, Alaska, characterized how foliar carbon cycling in dominant tundra species is affected and controlled by warming-mediated environmental change. Using the long-term global change experiment established by Gus Shaver and Terry Chapin at the Arctic LTER field site, we measured photosynthesis, respiration, and associated leaf traits grown under elevated temperatures and nutrient addition. Other projects characterized how foliar gas exchange varies through the Arctic growing season and through a woody shrub canopy. |
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Heskel MA, Bitterman D, Atkin OK, Turnbull MH, Griffin KL. Respiration responds to both long-term warming and short-term temperature variability in Arctic plants. Functional Plant Biology 41(3): 287-300. DOI: 10.1071/FP13137
Heskel M, Greaves HE, Kornfeld A, Atkin OK, Turnbull MH, Shaver, GR, Griffin KL (2013) Differential physiological responses to environmental change promote woody shrub expansion. Ecology and Evolution 3 (5): 1149-1162. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.525
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