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Fungal feedbacks to climate change

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Climate change is known to affect the carbon balance of Arctic tundra ecosystems by influencing plant growth and decomposition. Less predictable climate-driven biotic events, such as disease outbreaks, are now shown to potentially shift these ecosystems from net carbon sinks to sources.

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Figure 1: Effects of increased snow depth on ecosystem carbon balance in tundra.

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  1. Susan M. Natali and Michelle C. Mack are based in the Department of Biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA,

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