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The Arctic in the Twenty-First Century: Changing Biogeochemical Linkages across a Paraglacial Landscape of Greenland

Anderson, N. John
[1]; 
Saros, Jasmine E.
[2]; 
Bullard, Joanna E.
[1]; 
Cahoon, Sean M. P.
[3]; 
Mcgowan, Suzanne
[4]; 
Bagshaw, Elizabeth A.
[5]; 
Barry, Christopher D.
[6]; 
Bindler, Richard
[2]; 
Burpee, Benjamin T.
; 
Carrivick, Jonathan L.
[2]; 
Fowler, Rachel A.
; 
Fox, Anthony D.
[7]; 
Fritz, Sherilyn C.
[8]; 
Giles, Madeleine E.
[9]; 
Hamerlik, Ladislav
[10]; 
Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas
[11]; 
Law, Antonia C.
[12]; 
Mernild, Sebastian H.
[13]; 
Northington, Robert M.
[2]; 
Osburn, Christopher L.
[14]; 
Pla-Rabes, Sergi
[15]; 
Post, Eric
[16]; 
Telling, Jon
[17]; 
Stroud, David A.
[18]; 
Whiteford, Erika J.
[1]; 
Yallop, Marian L.
[17]; 
Yde, Jacob C.
[19]
  • 1
    Loughborough University
  • 2
    University of Maine System
  • 3
    Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)
  • 4
    University of Nottingham
  • 5
    Cardiff University
  • 6
    Queens University Belfast
  • 7
    Aarhus University
  • 8
    University of Nebraska System
  • 9
    University of Essex
  • 10
    Matthias Belius Univ Banska Bystrica
  • 11
    Technical University of Denmark
  • 12
    Keele University
  • 13
    Universidad de Magallanes  
  • 14
    North Carolina State University
  • 15
    Ctr Recerca Ecol & Aplicat Forestals
  • 16
    University of California System
  • 17
    University of Bristol
  • 18
    UK Joint Nat Conservat Comm Peterborough
  • 19
    Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
DOI
Date Issued
2017-02
Type
Artículo
Journal
BioScience
ISSN
0006-3568
1525-3244
Open Access
hybrid
Volume
67
Start page
118
End page
133
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The Kangerlussuaq area of southwest Greenland encompasses diverse ecological, geomorphic, and climate gradients that function over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Ecosystems range from the microbial communities on the ice sheet and moisture-stressed terrestrial vegetation (and their associated herbivores) to freshwater and oligosaline lakes. These ecosystems are linked by a dynamic glacio-fluvial-aeolian geomorphic system that transports water, geological material, organic carbon and nutrients from the glacier surface to adjacent terrestrial and aquatic systems. This paraglacial system is now subject to substantial change because of rapid regional warming since 2000. Here, we describe changes in the eco-and geomorphic systems at a range of timescales and explore rapid future change in the links that integrate these systems. We highlight the importance of cross-system subsidies at the landscape scale and, importantly, how these might change in the near future as the Arctic is expected to continue to warm.
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