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Arctic greening from warming promotes declines in caribou populations

The migratory tundra caribou herds in North America follow decadal population cycles, and browsing from abundant caribou could be expected to counteract the current climate-driven expansion of shrubs in the circumpolar tundra biome. We demonstrate that the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has provi...

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Autores principales: Fauchald, Per, Park, Taejin, Tømmervik, Hans, Myneni, Ranga, Hausner, Vera Helene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28508037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601365