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Thermal bridging by Arctic shrubs

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Shrubs act as thermal bridges to conduct heat through the tundra snowpack, fostering heat loss from the ground in winter and heat gain in the spring.

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Fig. 1: Shrubs above the snowpack at Trail Valley Creek in the Canadian Low Arctic.

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Loranty, M.M. Thermal bridging by Arctic shrubs. Nat. Geosci. 15, 515–516 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00977-4

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