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

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jon Telling

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Abstract

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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Author(s): Anderson NJ, Saros JE, Bullard JE, Cahoon SMP, McGowan S, Bagshaw EA, Barry CD, Bindler R, Burpee BT, Carrivick JL, Fowler RA, Fox AD, Fritz SC, Giles ME, Hamerlik L, Ingeman-Nielsen T, Law AC, Mernild SH, Northington RM, Osburn CL, Pla-Rabès S, Post E, Telling J, Stroud DA, Whiteford EJ, Yallop ML, Yde JC

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: BioScience

Year: 2017

Volume: 67

Issue: 2

Pages: 118-133

Print publication date: 01/02/2017

Online publication date: 21/01/2017

Acceptance date: 25/01/2017

Date deposited: 02/03/2017

ISSN (print): 0006-3568

ISSN (electronic): 1525-3244

Publisher: Oxford University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw158

DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw158


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NE/G019622/1
NE/K000349/1

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