{"id":900,"date":"2014-03-21T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=900"},"modified":"2014-04-06T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T22:19:10","slug":"shrubs-duke-it-out-in-a-warming-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/shrubs-duke-it-out-in-a-warming-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrubs duke it out in a warming Arctic<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_901\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Arctic-tents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-901\" class=\"size-full wp-image-901\" alt=\"Researchers erected these plastic greenhouses on the hummock tundra near Daring Lake, ~300 km north of Yellowknife, NWT to see which shrubs would be favoured by warmer temperatures. (Credit: Paul Grogan, Queen\u2019s University)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Arctic-tents.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Arctic-tents.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Arctic-tents-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers erected these plastic greenhouses on the hummock tundra near Daring Lake, ~300 km north of Yellowknife, NWT to see which shrubs would be favoured by warmer temperatures. (Credit: Paul Grogan, Queen\u2019s University)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the Arctic tundra warms, will fast-growing leafy plants come to dominate the landscape, or will they lose out to the slow-but-steady evergreens?<\/p>\n<p>The results of a 8-year experiment using plastic greenhouses to simulate warmer temperatures seem to indicate the latter. Even though deciduous trees are better at exploiting fertile environments, the tougher evergreens grew 66% to 82% better in the dry, nutrient-poor soils that currently extend over large areas of the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1365-2745.12237\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Ecology<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 21, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/biology\/people\/faculty\/grogan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Grogan<\/a>, Queen\u2019s University<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Arctic tundra warms, will fast-growing leafy plants come to dominate the landscape, or will they lose out to the slow-but-steady evergreens? The results of a 8-year experiment using plastic greenhouses to simulate warmer temperatures seem to indicate the latter. Even though deciduous trees are better at exploiting fertile environments, the tougher evergreens grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[185,31,215],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-arctic","tag-climate-change","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Arctic-tents.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-ew","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}