Abstract
The impacts of permafrost thaw are widespread across tundra landscapes. Now, research across a series of thermokarst landscapes on the Tibetan Plateau shows that abrupt permafrost thaw increases plant-available phosphorus, alters the vegetation community and tips the balance of belowground nutrient competition.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1144-1145 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Nature Climate Change |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - Nov 2025 |
Funding
C.M.I. was supported by the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments in the Arctic project, funded by the Biological and Environmental Research program in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( https://www.energy.gov/doe-public-access-plan ).