Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses
Abstract Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes, insect outbreaks and pathogens, extreme weather events, and human activity. Climate warming in the ABZ is occurring at over...
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crioppubl:10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 2024-09-09T19:23:10+00:00 Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses Foster, Adrianna C Wang, Jonathan A Frost, Gerald V Davidson, Scott J Hoy, Elizabeth Turner, Kevin W Sonnentag, Oliver Epstein, Howard Berner, Logan T Armstrong, Amanda H Kang, Mary Rogers, Brendan M Campbell, Elizabeth Miner, Kimberley R Orndahl, Kathleen M Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L Lutz, David A French, Nancy Chen, Dong Du, Jinyang Shestakova, Tatiana A Shuman, Jacquelyn K Tape, Ken Virkkala, Anna-Maria Potter, Christopher Goetz, Scott National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7/pdf unknown IOP Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/text-and-data-mining Environmental Research Letters volume 17, issue 11, page 113001 ISSN 1748-9326 journal-article 2022 crioppubl https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 2024-08-26T04:19:20Z Abstract Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes, insect outbreaks and pathogens, extreme weather events, and human activity. Climate warming in the ABZ is occurring at over twice the rate of the global average, and as a result the extent, frequency, and severity of these disturbances are increasing rapidly. Disturbances in the ABZ span a wide gradient of spatiotemporal scales and have varying impacts on ecosystem properties and function. However, many ABZ disturbances are relatively understudied and have different sensitivities to climate and trajectories of recovery, resulting in considerable uncertainty in the impacts of climate warming and human land use on ABZ vegetation dynamics and in the interactions between disturbance types. Here we review the current knowledge of ABZ disturbances and their precursors, ecosystem impacts, temporal frequencies, spatial extents, and severity. We also summarize current knowledge of interactions and feedbacks among ABZ disturbances and characterize typical trajectories of vegetation loss and recovery in response to ecosystem disturbance using satellite time-series. We conclude with a summary of critical data and knowledge gaps and identify priorities for future study. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic permafrost Tundra IOP Publishing Arctic Environmental Research Letters 17 11 113001 |
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Abstract Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes, insect outbreaks and pathogens, extreme weather events, and human activity. Climate warming in the ABZ is occurring at over twice the rate of the global average, and as a result the extent, frequency, and severity of these disturbances are increasing rapidly. Disturbances in the ABZ span a wide gradient of spatiotemporal scales and have varying impacts on ecosystem properties and function. However, many ABZ disturbances are relatively understudied and have different sensitivities to climate and trajectories of recovery, resulting in considerable uncertainty in the impacts of climate warming and human land use on ABZ vegetation dynamics and in the interactions between disturbance types. Here we review the current knowledge of ABZ disturbances and their precursors, ecosystem impacts, temporal frequencies, spatial extents, and severity. We also summarize current knowledge of interactions and feedbacks among ABZ disturbances and characterize typical trajectories of vegetation loss and recovery in response to ecosystem disturbance using satellite time-series. We conclude with a summary of critical data and knowledge gaps and identify priorities for future study. |
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Foster, Adrianna C Wang, Jonathan A Frost, Gerald V Davidson, Scott J Hoy, Elizabeth Turner, Kevin W Sonnentag, Oliver Epstein, Howard Berner, Logan T Armstrong, Amanda H Kang, Mary Rogers, Brendan M Campbell, Elizabeth Miner, Kimberley R Orndahl, Kathleen M Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L Lutz, David A French, Nancy Chen, Dong Du, Jinyang Shestakova, Tatiana A Shuman, Jacquelyn K Tape, Ken Virkkala, Anna-Maria Potter, Christopher Goetz, Scott |
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Foster, Adrianna C Wang, Jonathan A Frost, Gerald V Davidson, Scott J Hoy, Elizabeth Turner, Kevin W Sonnentag, Oliver Epstein, Howard Berner, Logan T Armstrong, Amanda H Kang, Mary Rogers, Brendan M Campbell, Elizabeth Miner, Kimberley R Orndahl, Kathleen M Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L Lutz, David A French, Nancy Chen, Dong Du, Jinyang Shestakova, Tatiana A Shuman, Jacquelyn K Tape, Ken Virkkala, Anna-Maria Potter, Christopher Goetz, Scott Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Foster, Adrianna C Wang, Jonathan A Frost, Gerald V Davidson, Scott J Hoy, Elizabeth Turner, Kevin W Sonnentag, Oliver Epstein, Howard Berner, Logan T Armstrong, Amanda H Kang, Mary Rogers, Brendan M Campbell, Elizabeth Miner, Kimberley R Orndahl, Kathleen M Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L Lutz, David A French, Nancy Chen, Dong Du, Jinyang Shestakova, Tatiana A Shuman, Jacquelyn K Tape, Ken Virkkala, Anna-Maria Potter, Christopher Goetz, Scott |
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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disturbances in north american boreal forest and arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Environmental Research Letters volume 17, issue 11, page 113001 ISSN 1748-9326 |
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