Ecological and conceptual consequences of Arctic pollution

• Main Authors: Kirdyanov, Alexander V., Krusic, Paul J., Shishov, Vladimir V., Vaganov, Eugene A., Fertikov, Alexey I., Myglan, Vladimir S., Barinov, Valentin V., Browse, Jo, Esper, Jan, Ilyin, Viktor A., Knorre, Anastasia A., Korets, Mikhail A., Kukarskikh, Vladimir V., Mashukov, Dmitry A., Onuchin, Alexander A., Piermattei, Alma, Pimenov, Alexander V., Prokushkin, Anatoly S., Ryzhkova, Vera A., Shishikin, Alexander S., Smith, Kevin T., Taynik, Anna V., Wild, Martin, Zorita, Eduardo, Büntgen, Ulf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Arctic Dimming; Boreal forest; Divergence Problem; Industrial pollution; Norilsk Disaster; Russia; Siberia; Tree rings; Arctic; Norilsk; Arctic pollution; norilsk; taiga
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/451400; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000451400

Although the effect of pollution on forest health and decline received much attention in the 1980s, it has not been considered to explain the ‘Divergence Problem’ in dendroclimatology; a decoupling of tree growth from rising air temperatures since the 1970s. Here we use physical and biogeochemical m...