Affiliation: Dept. of Geography, UWM

Title: The bloomin’ Arctic: plant phenology at the edge of the Greenland ice-sheet

Abstract: In this presentation I will describe a fragile ecosystem at the edge of the Greenland ice-sheet where I spent a field season observing and recording the development (phenology) of a range of plant species. I will demonstrate how vulnerable this ecosystem is to a changing climate which leads to a mismatch in the timing of carefully synchronized life stages of plants and animals.