Pamela H. Templer

Cascading effects of winter climate change in northern forests: Microclimate, microbes, biogeochemical flux, and vegetation.

Winter climate change is altering snowpack dynamics in northern forests. Snowpack decline disrupts winter soil thermal and hydrological regimes, alters soil microbial activity beneath the snowpack, and triggers cascading effects on vegetation growth and biogeochemical fluxes into the growing season. Despite growing evi...