We wanted to study herbivore effects on tundra
ecosystems over longer time scales, so we had to come up with a different solution,» says Dagmar Egelkraut.
Back in 2001, Peter Doran and colleagues wrote a paper about the Dry Valleys
long term
ecosystem responses to climate change, in which they had a section discussing temperature trends
over the previous couple of decades (not the 50 years
time scale being discussed this week).