{"id":227,"date":"2007-09-19T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T09:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/2007\/09\/19\/what-has-the-climate-done-to-the-plants-on-svalbard\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:30:49","slug":"what-has-the-climate-done-to-the-plants-on-svalbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/2007\/09\/19\/what-has-the-climate-done-to-the-plants-on-svalbard\/","title":{"rendered":"What has the climate done to the plants on Svalbard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve now seen my first reindeer up close and personal!!! We were hiking on one of the mountain slopes when we came across a reindeer. It was grazing on vegetation&#8230;not really bothered by our presence. These animals are not migratory and not really social animals, therefore you will hardly ever see them in groups. So far, we&#8217;ve seen two reindeer and they were both alone.<\/p>\n<p>We found out yesterday that dwarf birch is now being found on Svalbard. A species, which normally grows at or near the treeline in the Arctic. Its presence on Svalbard would generally indicate that the climate has warmed enough to have a change in plant species composition in this part of the Arctic. I cannot imagine what this area will be like 15 years from now. Will we see trees? If so, how will this affect the herbivory patterns of the reindeer?<\/p>\n<p>We spent the day looking at zooplankton under the microscope to see whether there are any changes in the zooplankton communities in a site far from a glacier (more saline) vs a site closest to a glacier (less saline due to an input of fresh water in the ocean). We are still on the hunt for results!<\/p>\n<p>Read more as the das pass&#8230;we only have one more full day in Ny Alesund before we sail back to Longyearbyen.<\/p>\n<p>So far, it has been an adventure of a lifetime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve now seen my first reindeer up close and personal!!! We were hiking on one of the mountain slopes when we came across a reindeer. It was grazing on vegetation&#8230;not really bothered by our presence. These animals are not migratory and not really social animals, therefore you will hardly ever see them in groups. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.capefarewell.com\/voyage4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}