LM11.3-6 Impact of climate change on polar terrestrial ecosystems - Det Internasjonale Polaråret 2007-2008

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LM11.3-6 Impact of climate change on polar terrestrial ecosystems

Time: Friday 11 June 11:00 - 12:30
Location : Jan Mayen 2

Theme 3. Polar ecosystems and biodiversity

Session 3-6. Impact of climate change on polar terrestrial ecosystems

Subsession - Vegetation Dynamics

11:00 Assessing the Dendrogeomorphological Potential of Arctic Dwarf Shrubs onCentral Spitsbergen (Svalbard)
Presenter: Agata Buchwal
11:15 Predicting decade-time scale change in plant productivity at a recently deglaciated site in the Canadian high arctic
Presenter: M.J. Lara
11:30 Changes in growing season length in northernmost Fennoscandia for the 1873 - 2008 period as measured from historical and recent phenology data
Presenter: Hans Tømmervik
11:45 Changes of forest-tundra vegetation distribution in Kola Peninsula (Kanentiavr key site)
Presenter: Alexandra Loshkareva
12:00 Change of the treeline ecotone in Khibiny Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Russia, over the last 50 years
Presenter: A. Mikheeva
12:15 Impacts of Ice Encasement on Two Dominant Sub-Arctic Dwarf Shrubs: Phenology and Growth Responses in a Novel Field Experiment
Presenter: C Preece