Kremer and his colleagues then wanted to determine what would happen to phytoplankton distributions under future warming scenarios. (sciencemag.org)
They then compared how 10 different vegetation classes, ranging from grasses to trees, would likely respond in the Arctic under these different future warming scenarios. (scientificamerican.com)
Without accounting for these opposite responses and temperature thresholds, climate reconstructions based on ring width will miscalibrate past climate, and biogeochemical and dynamic vegetation models will overestimate carbon uptake and treeline advance under future warming scenarios. (deepclimate.org)