The Past Winter

Northeast Siberian ice wedges confirm Arctic winter warming over the past two millennia

15 Arctic climate has experienced major changes over the past millennia that are not fully 16 understood in terms of their controls and seasonality. Stable-data from ice wedges in 17 permafrost provide unique information on past winter climate. Recently, an ice-wedge 18 record from the Lena River Delta suggested for the first time that Siberian winter 19 temperatures increased throughout the Ho...

Understanding past, contemporary, and future dynamics of plants, populations, and communities using Sonoran Desert winter annuals.

Global change requires plant ecologists to predict future states of biological diversity to aid the management of natural communities, thus introducing a number of significant challenges. One major challenge is considering how the many interacting features of biological systems, including ecophysiological processes, plant life histories, and species interactions, relate to performance in the fa...

Estimating the responses of winter wheat yields to moisture variations in the past 35 years in Jiangsu Province of China

Jiangsu is an important agricultural province in China. Winter wheat, as the second major grain crop in the province, is greatly affected by moisture variations. The objective of this study was to investigate whether there were significant trends in changes in the moisture conditions during wheat growing seasons over the past decades and how the wheat yields responded to different moisture leve...

The anchorman In WInTer

Winter warming as an important co-driver for Betula nana growth in western Greenland during the past century

Growing season conditions are widely recognized as the main driver for tundra shrub radial growth, but the effects of winter warming and snow remain an open question. Here, we present a more than 100 years long Betula nana ring-width chronology from Disko Island in western Greenland that demonstrates a highly significant and positive growth response to both summer and winter air temperatures du...