Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change
International audience Abstract High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we assess the vulnerability of the North Water polynya, a unique seaice ecosystem that sustains...
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International audience Abstract High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we assess the vulnerability of the North Water polynya, a unique seaice ecosystem that sustains the world’s northernmost Inuit communities and several keystone Arctic species. We reconstruct mid-to-late Holocene changes in sea ice, marine primary production, and little auk colony dynamics through multi-proxy analysis of marine and lake sediment cores. Our results suggest a productive ecosystem by 4400–4200 cal yrs b2k coincident with the arrival of the first humans in Greenland. Climate forcing during the late Holocene, leading to periods of polynya instability and marine productivity decline, is strikingly coeval with the human abandonment of Greenland from c. 2200–1200 cal yrs b2k. Our long-term perspective highlights the future decline of the North Water ecosystem, due to climate warming and changing sea-ice conditions, as an important climate change risk. |
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Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas |
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Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change |
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Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change |
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-03332404v1 2023-05-15T14:56:09+02:00 Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Variabilité de l'Océan et de la Glace de mer (VOG) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) Aarhus University Aarhus UMR 5805 Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC) Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU) Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2021-12 https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03332404 https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03332404/document https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03332404/file/s41467-021-24742-0.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 hal-03332404 https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03332404 https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03332404/document https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03332404/file/s41467-021-24742-0.pdf doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2041-1723 EISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03332404 Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, 2021, 12 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0⟩ [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 2022-07-13T16:21:31Z International audience Abstract High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we assess the vulnerability of the North Water polynya, a unique seaice ecosystem that sustains the world’s northernmost Inuit communities and several keystone Arctic species. We reconstruct mid-to-late Holocene changes in sea ice, marine primary production, and little auk colony dynamics through multi-proxy analysis of marine and lake sediment cores. Our results suggest a productive ecosystem by 4400–4200 cal yrs b2k coincident with the arrival of the first humans in Greenland. Climate forcing during the late Holocene, leading to periods of polynya instability and marine productivity decline, is strikingly coeval with the human abandonment of Greenland from c. 2200–1200 cal yrs b2k. Our long-term perspective highlights the future decline of the North Water ecosystem, due to climate warming and changing sea-ice conditions, as an important climate change risk. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Greenland inuit little auk Sea ice Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Arctic Greenland Nature Communications 12 1 |