We use the Multiple Element Limitation (MEL) model to examine the responses of twelve ecosystems - from the arctic to the tropics and from grasslands to forests - to elevated carbon dioxide (CO2), warming, and 20% decreases or increases in annual precipitation.
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We use the Multiple Element Limitation (MEL) model to examine the responses of twelve ecosystems - from the arctic to the tropics and from grasslands to forests - to elevated carbon dioxide (CO2), warming, and 20% decreases or increases in annual precipitation.
Climate change is increasing extreme weather events, but effects on high-frequency weather variability and the resultant impacts on ecosystem function are poorly understood. We assessed ecosystem responses of arctic tundra to changes in day-to-day weather variability usingĀ a biogeochemical modelĀ and stochastic simulations of daily temperature, precipitation, and light. Changes in weather variability altered ecosystem carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stocks and cycling rates.
Weather measurements from the Toolk Main weather station, 1989-2019. This data was originally downloaded from the Toolik Field Station Environmental Data Center March 8, 2021.
This climate record was used in Rastetter et al., Science, submitted.
The latest climate data is available at http://toolik.alaska.edu/edc/abiotic_monitoring/data_query.php