Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change
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 c...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/77285 2024-05-19T07:35:34+00:00 Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. 2021 application/pdf fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202108044453 eng eng Springer Science+Business Media Nature Communications 2041-1723 12 https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/MQDS1L 10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 Ribeiro, S., Limoges, A., Massé, G., Johansen, K. L., Colgan, W., Weckström, K., Jackson, R., Georgiadis, E., Mikkelsen, N., Kuijpers, A., Olsen, J., Olsen, S. M., Nissen, M., Andersen, T. J., Strunk, A., Wetterich, S., Syväranta, J., Henderson, A. C. G., Mackay, H., . . . Davidson, T. A. (2021). Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change. Nature Communications , 12 , Article 4475. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 CONVID_99148651 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202108044453 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202108044453 CC BY 4.0 © 2021 the Authors openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grönlanti climate-change ecology ecosystem ecology palaeoceanography palaeoclimate merijää arktinen alue inuitit lämpeneminen paleoklimatologia ekosysteemit (ekologia) ilmasto ilmastonmuutokset article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 publishedVersion A1 2021 ftjyvaeskylaenun https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/MQDS1L10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 2024-04-23T23:38:28Z 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. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arktinen alue Climate change Greenland Grönlanti inuit little auk Sea ice JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive |
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Grönlanti climate-change ecology ecosystem ecology palaeoceanography palaeoclimate merijää arktinen alue inuitit lämpeneminen paleoklimatologia ekosysteemit (ekologia) ilmasto ilmastonmuutokset Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change |
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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. peerReviewed |
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Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. |
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Ribeiro, Sofia Limoges, Audrey Massé, Guillaume Johansen, Kasper L. Colgan, William Weckström, Kaarina Jackson, Rebecca Georgiadis, Eleanor Mikkelsen, Naja Kuijpers, Antoon Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Steffen M. Nissen, Martin Andersen, Thorbjørn J. Strunk, Astrid Wetterich, Sebastian Syväranta, Jari Henderson, Andrew C. G. Mackay, Helen Taipale, Sami Jeppesen, Erik Larsen, Nicolaj K. Crosta, Xavier Giraudeau, Jacques Wengrat, Simone Nuttall, Mark Grønnow, Bjarne Mosbech, Anders Davidson, Thomas A. |
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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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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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Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change |
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Springer Science+Business Media |
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2021 |
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Arctic Arktinen alue Climate change Greenland Grönlanti inuit little auk Sea ice |
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Arctic Arktinen alue Climate change Greenland Grönlanti inuit little auk Sea ice |
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Nature Communications 2041-1723 12 https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/MQDS1L 10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 Ribeiro, S., Limoges, A., Massé, G., Johansen, K. L., Colgan, W., Weckström, K., Jackson, R., Georgiadis, E., Mikkelsen, N., Kuijpers, A., Olsen, J., Olsen, S. M., Nissen, M., Andersen, T. J., Strunk, A., Wetterich, S., Syväranta, J., Henderson, A. C. G., Mackay, H., . . . Davidson, T. A. (2021). Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change. Nature Communications , 12 , Article 4475. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0 CONVID_99148651 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202108044453 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202108044453 |
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