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Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2779-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2779-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
Research article
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02 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 02 Jun 2022

Response of vegetation and carbon fluxes to brown lemming herbivory in northern Alaska

Jessica Plein, Rulon W. Clark, Kyle A. Arndt, Walter C. Oechel, Douglas Stow, and Donatella Zona

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Tundra vegetation and the carbon balance of Arctic ecosystems can be substantially impacted by herbivory. We tested how herbivory by brown lemmings in individual enclosure plots have impacted carbon exchange of tundra ecosystems via altering carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) fluxes. Lemmings significantly decreased net CO2 uptake while not affecting CH4 emissions. There was no significant difference in the subsequent growing season due to recovery of the vegetation.
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