Greening in the Arctic (IMAGE)

American Museum of Natural History

Greening in the Arctic

Caption

This set of images shows the observed distribution of Arctic vegetation (left) in relation to the predicted distribution of vegetation under a climate warming scenario for the 2050s (right). Data used to generate the observed image are from the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (2003).

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AMNH/R. Pearson

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