Multi-Decadal Changes in Tundra Environments and Ecosystems: Synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF)

• Published in: AMBIO
• Main Authors: Terry V. Callaghan, Craig E. Tweedie, Jonas Åkerman, Christopher Andrews, Johan Bergstedt, Malcolm G. Butler, Torben R. Christensen, Dorothy Cooley, Ulrika Dahlberg, Ryan K. Danby, Fred J. A. Daniëls, Johannes G. de Molenaar, Jan Dick, Christian Ebbe Mortensen, Diane Ebert-May, Urban Emanuelsson, Håkan Eriksson, Henrik Hedenås, Greg. H. R. Henry, David S. Hik, John E. Hobbie, Elin J. Jantze, Cornelia Jaspers, Cecilia Johansson, Margareta Johansson, David R. Johnson, Jill F. Johnstone, Christer Jonasson, Catherine Kennedy, Alice J. Kenney, Frida Keuper, Saewan Koh, Charles J. Krebs, Hugues Lantuit, Mark J. Lara, David Lin, Vanessa L. Lougheed, Jesper Madsen, Nadya Matveyeva, Daniel C. McEwen, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Yuriy K. Narozhniy, Håkan Olsson, Veijo A. Pohjola, Larry W. Price, Frank Rigét, Sara Rundqvist, Anneli Sandström, Mikkel Tamstorf, Rik Van Bogaert, Sandra Villarreal, Patrick J. Webber, Valeriy A. Zemtsov
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Herschel Island; Yukon; Herschel; International Polar Year; IPY; permafrost; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0179-8

Understanding the responses of tundra systems to global change has global implications. Most tundra regions lack sustained environmental monitoring and one of the only ways to document multi-decadal change is to resample historic research sites. The International Polar Year (IPY) provided a unique o...