COMMENTARY Microbial ecosystem responses to rapid climate change in the Arctic

• Main Author: Warwick F Vincent
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Simmonds; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.468.2988; http://132.203.57.253/warwickvincent/PDFfiles/260.pdf

Rapid climate change in the Arctic has begun to affect the ecology of plants and animals throughout the region, with impacts on species ranges, popula-tion dynamics and food web interactions (Grebmeier et al., 2006; Post et al., 2009). By comparison, little attention has been given to the impacts on...