Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change
High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we assess the vulnerability of the North Water polynya, a unique seaice ecosystem that sustains the world’s northernmost Inuit c...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:54423 2024-09-15T18:02:10+00:00 Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. 2021-07-22 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54423/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54423/1/Ribeiro_2021.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.1d216788-17dc-4a1b-bfb6-ae17c5583b2a unknown Springer Nature https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54423/1/Ribeiro_2021.pdf Ribeiro, S. , Limoges, A. , Massé, G. , Johansen, K. L. , Colgan, W. , Weckström, K. , Jackson, R. , Georgiadis, E. , Mikkelsen, N. , Kuijpers, A. , Olsen, J. , Olsen, S. M. , Nissen, M. , Andersen, T. J. , Strunk, A. , Wetterich, S. orcid:0000-0001-9234-1192 , Syväranta, J. , Henderson, A. C. G. , Mackay, H. , Taipale, S. , Jeppesen, E. , Larsen, N. K. , Crosta, X. , Giraudeau, J. , Wengrat, S. , Nuttall, M. , Grønnow, B. , Mosbech, A. and Davidson, T. A. (2021) Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change , Nature Communications, 12 , p. 4475 . doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0> , hdl:10013/epic.1d216788-17dc-4a1b-bfb6-ae17c5583b2a EPIC3Nature Communications, Springer Nature, 12, pp. 4475, ISSN: 2041-1723 Article isiRev 2021 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 2024-06-24T04:27:29Z High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we assess the vulnerability of the North Water polynya, a unique seaice ecosystem that sustains the world’s northernmost Inuit communities and several keystone Arctic species. We reconstruct mid-tolate Holocene changes in sea ice, marine primary production, and little auk colony dynamics through multi-proxy analysis of marine and lake sediment cores. Our results suggest a productive ecosystem by 4400–4200 cal yrs b2k coincident with the arrival of the first humans in Greenland. Climate forcing during the late Holocene, leading to periods of polynya instability and marine productivity decline, is strikingly coeval with the human abandonment of Greenland from c. 2200–1200 cal yrs b2k. Our long-term perspective highlights the future decline of the North Water ecosystem, due to climate warming and changing sea-ice conditions, as an important climate change risk. Article in Journal/Newspaper Climate change Greenland inuit little auk Sea ice Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Nature Communications 12 1 |
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High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we assess the vulnerability of the North Water polynya, a unique seaice ecosystem that sustains the world’s northernmost Inuit communities and several keystone Arctic species. We reconstruct mid-tolate Holocene changes in sea ice, marine primary production, and little auk colony dynamics through multi-proxy analysis of marine and lake sediment cores. Our results suggest a productive ecosystem by 4400–4200 cal yrs b2k coincident with the arrival of the first humans in Greenland. Climate forcing during the late Holocene, leading to periods of polynya instability and marine productivity decline, is strikingly coeval with the human abandonment of Greenland from c. 2200–1200 cal yrs b2k. Our long-term perspective highlights the future decline of the North Water ecosystem, due to climate warming and changing sea-ice conditions, as an important climate change risk. |
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Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. |
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Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change |
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Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. |
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Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54423/1/Ribeiro_2021.pdf Ribeiro, S. , Limoges, A. , Massé, G. , Johansen, K. L. , Colgan, W. , Weckström, K. , Jackson, R. , Georgiadis, E. , Mikkelsen, N. , Kuijpers, A. , Olsen, J. , Olsen, S. M. , Nissen, M. , Andersen, T. J. , Strunk, A. , Wetterich, S. orcid:0000-0001-9234-1192 , Syväranta, J. , Henderson, A. C. G. , Mackay, H. , Taipale, S. , Jeppesen, E. , Larsen, N. K. , Crosta, X. , Giraudeau, J. , Wengrat, S. , Nuttall, M. , Grønnow, B. , Mosbech, A. and Davidson, T. A. (2021) Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change , Nature Communications, 12 , p. 4475 . doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0> , hdl:10013/epic.1d216788-17dc-4a1b-bfb6-ae17c5583b2a |
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