{"id":176,"date":"2009-10-09T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/?p=176"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:06:28","slug":"arctic-shrubs-looming-large-climate-change-and-tundra-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/arctic-shrubs-looming-large-climate-change-and-tundra-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic shrubs looming large: Climate change and tundra productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/James-Hudson.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-174\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"James Hudson_s\" alt=\"James Hudson_s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/James-Hudson_s.JPG\" width=\"245\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>All around the world, the subtle\u2014and not-so-subtle&#8212;impacts of climate change are becoming apparent.\u00a0 In the Arctic, where temperatures are warming at about twice the rate of lower latitudes, researchers are discovering marked changes in the landscape. In this month\u2019s Field Talk, we take a trip to the High Arctic with James Hudson, whose paper in the October issue of Ecology looks at a tundra community on Canada\u2019s Ellesmere Island. Hudson and his colleagues found that changes in temperature and seasonality are causing the normally low-lying shrubs in this area to grow to nearly twice their usual weight. Given the importance of the Arctic to global nutrient cycling, these types of studies can provide a road map to identifying areas of likely change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All around the world, the subtle\u2014and not-so-subtle&#8212;impacts of climate change are becoming apparent.\u00a0 In the Arctic, where temperatures are warming at about twice the rate of lower latitudes, researchers are discovering marked changes in the landscape. In this month\u2019s Field<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/arctic-shrubs-looming-large-climate-change-and-tundra-productivity\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86,87,161,55,157,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}