http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk audio interviews take you into the field with ecologists Tue, 07 May 2013 01:27:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 2006-2007 podcast@esa.org (ESA Podcast) podcast@esa.org (ESA Podcast) ESA, Ecology, Environment, Beyond Frontier, Field Talks, The Ecologist Goes to Washington 1440 http://www.esa.org/podcast/images/esa_podcast_small.jpg http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk 144 144 ESA Podcast: Field Talks, Beyond the Frontier, The Ecologist Goes to Washington Field Talk audio interviews take you into the field with ecologists. ESA, Podcast, Field, Talks, Ecology, Environment, Frontiers, Environmental, Science, Ecological, Society, of ESA Podcast ESA Podcast podcast@esa.org no no http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/arctic-shrubs-looming-large-climate-change-and-tundra-productivity/ http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/arctic-shrubs-looming-large-climate-change-and-tundra-productivity/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:37:38 +0000 liza http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=176 … Read more ›]]> All around the world, the subtle—and not-so-subtle—impacts of climate change are becoming apparent.  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’s 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’s 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.

]]> http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/arctic-shrubs-looming-large-climate-change-and-tundra-productivity/feed/ 0 0:13:46 All around the world, the subtle—and not-so-subtle—impacts of climate change are becoming apparent.  In the Arctic, where temperatures are warming at about twice the rate of lower latitudes, researchers are discovering marked changes in the[...] All around the world, the subtle—and not-so-subtle—impacts of climate change are becoming apparent.  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’s 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’s 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. ESA Podcast no no