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Reindeer as Ecosystem Engineers?

Herding could help curb Arctic greening and shrubification caused by climate change.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Reindeer as Ecosystem Engineers?.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and using data from Berner, Logan, et al. (2020). Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published December 23, 2021
Data acquired July 8, 2021