ARCTIC LTER Predicting the Future Ecological Characteristics of the Toolik Lake Region

• Main Authors: John Hobbie, Knute Nadelhoffer, Bruce Peterson, Linda Deegan, Gus Shaver, Anne Giblin, Joe Vallino, Marine Biological Laboratory
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Northern Foothills; Arctic grayling; Brooks Range; caribou; Dwarf birch; Moose; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.202.6102; http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/ARC/posters/Arctic_lter_all_science_poster.pdf

The site lies at 68 o N in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska, in tundra vegetation of sedges and grasses mixed with dwarf birch and low willows. The tundra, streams, and lakes at the site have been undisturbed and unchanged for more than 5,000 years; caribou and moose move freely ov...