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Impacts of Climate Change on Demographic Processes and Population Dynamics in Arctic Plants

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Most studies on the impact of climate change on plants have focused on short-term physiological and ecosystem processes such as gas exchange, while a few studies have addressed long-term responses such as biome redistribution (e.g., Emanuel et al., 1985a, 1985b; Prentice, 1993). Studies on an intermediate, population-orientated, level are largely lacking. Yet it is on this level that the physiological responses to the environment are integrated into the major discrete step events of reproduction and death, which are measures of a plant’s fitness and lead to subsequent changes in biodiversity. Also, it is at the population level that many intra- and interspecific interactions between populations take place, which ultimately decide future community structure.

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  1. Global Change Research Group, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, CA, USA

    Walter C. Oechel

  2. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield Centre for Arctic Ecology, University of Sheffield, S1D 5BR, Sheffield, UK

    Terry V. Callaghan

  3. Department of Vertebrate Zoology and General Ecology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Tagir G. Gilmanov

  4. Arctic Adaptation Division, Canadian Climate Centre, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

    Barrie Maxwell

  5. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Göteborg, S-413 19, Göteborg, Sweden

    Ulf Molau

  6. Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Bjartmar Sveinbjörnsson

  7. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, 99775, Anchorage, AK, USA

    Bjartmar Sveinbjörnsson

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Callaghan, T.V., Carlsson, B.Å. (1997). Impacts of Climate Change on Demographic Processes and Population Dynamics in Arctic Plants. In: Oechel, W.C., et al. Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 124. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2240-8_7

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