Sentences with phrase «greatest changes in vegetation»
The greatest changes in vegetation are occurring in the High Arctic of Canada and West Greenland and Northern Alaska, where increases in greening of up to 15 % have been observed from 1982 to 2008.
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«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.
These changes are driven by changing vegetation type mixtures, with grasses and smaller shrubs in JeDi decreasing boreal residence times, and greater proportions of trees increasing residence times in the southeastern United States and China.
States that other feedbacks likely to emerge are those in which key processes include surface fluxes of trace gases, changes in the distribution of vegetation, changes in surface soil moisture, changes in atmospheric water vapor arising from higher temperatures and greater areas of open ocean, impacts of Arctic freshwater fluxes on the meridional overturning circulation of the ocean, and changes in Arctic clouds resulting from changes in water vapor content