Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients
Abstract Global warming is driving environmental change in the Arctic. However, our current understanding of this change varies strongly among different environmental disciplines and is limited by the number and distribution of field sampling locations. Here, we use a quantitative framework based on...
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crioppubl:10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291 2024-06-02T07:58:51+00:00 Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients Virkkala, A-M Abdi, A M Luoto, M Metcalfe, D B Suomen Akatemia Lund University Strategic Research Area European Research Council Consolidator Alfred Kordelinin Säätiö The Finnish Cultural Foundation Väisälä fund 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291/pdf unknown IOP Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/text-and-data-mining Environmental Research Letters volume 14, issue 12, page 124061 ISSN 1748-9326 journal-article 2019 crioppubl https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291 2024-05-07T13:58:16Z Abstract Global warming is driving environmental change in the Arctic. However, our current understanding of this change varies strongly among different environmental disciplines and is limited by the number and distribution of field sampling locations. Here, we use a quantitative framework based on multivariate statistical modeling to present the current state of sampling across environmental disciplines in the Arctic. We utilize an existing database of georeferenced Arctic field studies to investigate how sampling locations and citations of disciplines are distributed across Arctic topographical, soil and vegetation conditions, and highlight critical regions for potential new research areas in different disciplines. Continuous permafrost landscapes, and the northernmost Arctic bioclimatic zones are studied and cited the least in relation to their extent in many disciplines. We show that the clusters of sampling locations and citations are not uniform across disciplines. Sampling locations in Botany and Biogeochemistry cover environmental gradients the best, and Microbiology, Meteorology, Geosciences And Geographic Information Systems/remote Sensing/Modeling have the worst coverage. We conclude that across all disciplines, more research is needed particularly in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, northern Greenland, central and eastern Siberia, and in some disciplines, in Canadian mainland, central Alaska, western Siberia and northern Taimyr region. We provide detailed maps of potential new sampling locations for each environmental discipline that consider multiple variables simultaneously. These results will help prioritize future research efforts, thus increasing our knowledge about the Arctic environmental change. Article in Journal/Newspaper Archipelago Arctic Archipelago Arctic Canadian Arctic Archipelago Global warming Greenland permafrost Taimyr Alaska Siberia IOP Publishing Arctic Canadian Arctic Archipelago Greenland Environmental Research Letters 14 12 124061 |
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Abstract Global warming is driving environmental change in the Arctic. However, our current understanding of this change varies strongly among different environmental disciplines and is limited by the number and distribution of field sampling locations. Here, we use a quantitative framework based on multivariate statistical modeling to present the current state of sampling across environmental disciplines in the Arctic. We utilize an existing database of georeferenced Arctic field studies to investigate how sampling locations and citations of disciplines are distributed across Arctic topographical, soil and vegetation conditions, and highlight critical regions for potential new research areas in different disciplines. Continuous permafrost landscapes, and the northernmost Arctic bioclimatic zones are studied and cited the least in relation to their extent in many disciplines. We show that the clusters of sampling locations and citations are not uniform across disciplines. Sampling locations in Botany and Biogeochemistry cover environmental gradients the best, and Microbiology, Meteorology, Geosciences And Geographic Information Systems/remote Sensing/Modeling have the worst coverage. We conclude that across all disciplines, more research is needed particularly in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, northern Greenland, central and eastern Siberia, and in some disciplines, in Canadian mainland, central Alaska, western Siberia and northern Taimyr region. We provide detailed maps of potential new sampling locations for each environmental discipline that consider multiple variables simultaneously. These results will help prioritize future research efforts, thus increasing our knowledge about the Arctic environmental change. |
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Suomen Akatemia Lund University Strategic Research Area European Research Council Consolidator Alfred Kordelinin Säätiö The Finnish Cultural Foundation Väisälä fund |
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Virkkala, A-M Abdi, A M Luoto, M Metcalfe, D B |
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Virkkala, A-M Abdi, A M Luoto, M Metcalfe, D B Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients |
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Virkkala, A-M Abdi, A M Luoto, M Metcalfe, D B |
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Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients |
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Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients |
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Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients |
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Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients |
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Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients |
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identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across arctic terrestrial gradients |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4291/pdf |
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Environmental Research Letters volume 14, issue 12, page 124061 ISSN 1748-9326 |
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