Dryas

Prostrate and dwarf shrubs such as Dryas spp., arctic willow, and polar willow are likely to decline in abundance with warming in the low Arctic, due to competition with taller plants, but are likely to increase in abundance in the current polar deserts.

Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term 2009

[48] - and some, such as Dryas drummondii, are pioneer species that tend to occur prior to tree-dominated stages of succession

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Duncan N. L. Menge et al. 2010

The processes involved in the TP are resembling those accompanying falling P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 onto Jupiter and, possibly, the impact-caused Younger Dryas cooling ~13 ka ago.

2009 March - Telic Thoughts 2009

It will probably be on the scale of the Younger Dryas event.

Matthew Yglesias » Today in Pessimism 2009

… The main cooling event that marks the beginning of the Younger Dryas seems have occurred within less than 100 years, according to Greenland ice core data Alley et al.

‘Global Warming Causes Earthquakes.’ Suuuuure it does. | RedState 2010

That triggered changes in Atlantic Ocean currents, which ushered in a 1,300-year ice age known as the Younger Dryas.

Boing Boing 2008

Allozyme and morphological variation in two subspecies of Dryas octopetala

Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009

Molecular phylogeography of Dryas integrifolia: glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization.

Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009

Allozyme and morphological variation in two subspecies of Dryas octopetala (Rosaceae) in Alaska.

Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009

They found that the major source of increased methane during the Younger Dryas-Preboreal transition was from wetlands.

Bill Chameides: Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun 2009