What does ‘shrubification’ mean for the Arctic?

As shrubs continue to expand in the Arctic tundra, scientists are working to figure out what this new landscape would look like.

By Kelsey Lindsey March 16, 2018
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It’s a phenomenon so common it has morphed into its own verb. “Shrubification” describes the expansion of shrubs across the Arctic, from the North Slope of Alaska to the isolated expanse of Siberian tundra.

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