Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change

The North Water polynya is a unique but vulnerable ecosystem, home to Indigenous people and Arctic keystone species. New palaeoecological records from Greenland suggest human abandonment c. 2200–1200 cal yrs BP occurred during climate-forced polynya instability, foreshadowing future ecosystem declin...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Sofia Ribeiro, Audrey Limoges, Guillaume Massé, Kasper L. Johansen, William Colgan, Kaarina Weckström, Rebecca Jackson, Eleanor Georgiadis, Naja Mikkelsen, Antoon Kuijpers, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Olsen, Martin Nissen, Thorbjørn J. Andersen, Astrid Strunk, Sebastian Wetterich, Jari Syväranta, Andrew C. G. Henderson, Helen Mackay, Sami Taipale, Erik Jeppesen, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Xavier Crosta, Jacques Giraudeau, Simone Wengrat, Mark Nuttall, Bjarne Grønnow, Anders Mosbech, Thomas A. Davidson
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
Subjects:
Science
Q
Arctic
Greenland
Climate change
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0
https://doaj.org/article/39c0e1733d1e4888b93cd6da6db29702
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Summary:The North Water polynya is a unique but vulnerable ecosystem, home to Indigenous people and Arctic keystone species. New palaeoecological records from Greenland suggest human abandonment c. 2200–1200 cal yrs BP occurred during climate-forced polynya instability, foreshadowing future ecosystem declines.

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