Fig. 1: Schematic path diagram showing the effect of shortened snow cover duration on plant productivity. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: Schematic path diagram showing the effect of shortened snow cover duration on plant productivity.

From: Warming-independent shortened snow cover duration enhances vegetation greening across northern permafrost region

Fig. 1: Schematic path diagram showing the effect of shortened snow cover duration on plant productivity.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Cascading relationships of the three pathways include six processes: snow cover duration length (SCD) in the snow hydrological year; snowmelt dates (SMD); thermal regime of the soil ground after snowmelt (soil temperature, Tsoil); soil thaw including start of soil thaw (SOT) and active layer thickness (ALT); N-uptake (Nplant), water availability (soil water content, SWC) and plant phenology (start of season, SOS). Climate factors (air temperature, precipitation, solar radiation), atmospheric N deposition, and runoff are considered in the cascading relationships.

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