"Arctic Regions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The Arctic Ocean and the lands in it and adjacent to it. It includes Point Barrow, Alaska, most of the Franklin District in Canada, two thirds of Greenland, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Lapland, Novaya Zemlya, and Northern Siberia. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p66)
| Descriptor ID |
D001110
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.208
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Arctic Regions" by people in Profiles.
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Pan-Arctic soil moisture control on tundra carbon sequestration and plant productivity. Glob Chang Biol. 2023 03; 29(5):1267-1281.
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A new elpistostegalian from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic. Nature. 2022 08; 608(7923):563-568.
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Earlier snowmelt may lead to late season declines in plant productivity and carbon sequestration in Arctic tundra ecosystems. Sci Rep. 2022 03 21; 12(1):3986.
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Increased high-latitude photosynthetic carbon gain offset by respiration carbon loss during an anomalous warm winter to spring transition. Glob Chang Biol. 2020 02; 26(2):682-696.
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Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 05; 113(1):40-5.
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Elephantid Genomes Reveal the Molecular Bases of Woolly Mammoth Adaptations to the Arctic. Cell Rep. 2015 Jul 14; 12(2):217-28.
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The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic. Science. 2014 08 29; 345(6200):1255832.
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High mountain origin, phylogenetics, evolution, and niche conservatism of arctic lineages in the hemiparasitic genus Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2014 Jul; 76:75-92.
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Assessing the carbon balance of circumpolar Arctic tundra using remote sensing and process modeling. Ecol Appl. 2007 Jan; 17(1):213-34.
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Evolution. Parallel evolution is in the genes. Science. 2004 Mar 19; 303(5665):1779-81.