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ArticleEnvironmental research letters : ERL [Web site]2016

Montane ecosystem productivity responds more to global circulation patterns than climatic trends.

A R Desai, G Wohlfahrt, M J Zeeman, G Katata, W Eugster, L Montagnani, D Gianelle, M Mauder, H-P Schmid

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Article in Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site], 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

A R DesaiUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 1225 W Dayton St, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA.
G WohlfahrtUniversity of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology, Sternwartestraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, AUSTRIA.
M J ZeemanKarlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), KIT Campus Alpin, Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY.
G KatataKarlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), KIT Campus Alpin, Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY.
W EugsterETH Zürich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Universitätstrasse 2, 8092 Zürich, SWITZERLAND.
L MontagnaniForest Services, Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Via Brennero 6, 39100 Bolzano, ITALY.
D GianelleDepartment of Sustainable Agro-Ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 S. Michele all' Adige Trento, ITALY.
M MauderKarlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), KIT Campus Alpin, Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY.
H-P SchmidKarlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), KIT Campus Alpin, Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · DEETH Zurich · CHFondazione Edmund Mach · ITJapan Atomic Energy Agency · JPProvincia autonoma di Bolzano - Alto AdigeUniversität Innsbruck · ATUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 26425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regional ecosystem productivity is highly sensitive to inter-annual climate variability, both within and outside the primary carbon uptake period. However, Earth system models lack sufficient spatial scales and ecosystem processes to resolve how these processes may change in a warming climate. Here, we show, how for the European Alps, mid-latitude Atlantic ocean winter circulation anomalies drive high-altitude summer forest and grassland productivity, through feedbacks among orographic wind circulation patterns, snowfall, winter and spring temperatures, and vegetation activity. Therefore, to understand future global climate change influence to regional ecosystem productivity, Earth systems models need to focus on improvements towards topographic downscaling of changes in regional atmospheric circulation patterns and to lagged responses in vegetation dynamics to non-growing season climate anomalies.

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Alpine ecologyatmospheric circulationclimatic change and variabilityecosystem carbon uptakeFoehn

Identifiers

PMID28458719
PMCPMC5405868
OpenAlexW2280126850

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