The approach of the researchers has been to identify climate drivers of vegetation productivity on monthly timescales. (sciencedaily.com)
Loranty MM, Lieberman - Cribbin W, Berner LT, Natali SM, Goetz SJ, Alexander HD, Kholodov AL (2016) Spatial variation in vegetation productivity trends, fire disturbance, and soil carbon across arctic - boreal permafrost ecosystems. (searcharcticscience.org)
«Our results suggest that model improvements need to be targeted at processes controlling vegetation productivity and respiration from the soil.» (scientificamerican.com)