Ice roads through lake-rich Arctic watersheds : Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management
Vast mosaics of lakes, wetlands, and rivers on the Arctic Coastal Plain give the impression of water surplus. Yet long winters lock freshwater resources in ice, limiting freshwater habitats and water supply for human uses. Increasingly the petroleum industry relies on lakes to build temporary ice ro...
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ftleibnizopen:oai:oai.leibnizopen.de:-HbfXIkBdbrxVwz63A9- 2023-07-30T03:59:30+02:00 Ice roads through lake-rich Arctic watersheds : Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management Arp, Christopher D. Whitman, Matthew S. Jones, Benjamin M. Nigro, D.A. Alexeev, Vladimir Gädeke, Anne Fritz, Stacey Daanen, Ronald Liljedahl, Anna K. Adams, F.J. Gaglioti, Benjamin V. Grosse, Guido Heim, Kurt C. Beaver, R. Cai, Lei Engram, Melanie Uher-Koch, Hannah R. 2019 application/pdf https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/6774 https://doi.org/10.34657/5821 eng eng London : Taylor & Francis Group CC BY 4.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Arctic, antarctic, and alpine research : an interdisciplinary journal 51 (2019), Nr. 1 adaptive management Arctic watersheds climate change freshwater habitat ice roads petroleum development 570 550 article Text 2019 ftleibnizopen https://doi.org/10.34657/5821 2023-07-16T23:28:01Z Vast mosaics of lakes, wetlands, and rivers on the Arctic Coastal Plain give the impression of water surplus. Yet long winters lock freshwater resources in ice, limiting freshwater habitats and water supply for human uses. Increasingly the petroleum industry relies on lakes to build temporary ice roads for winter oil exploration. Permitting water withdrawal for ice roads in Arctic Alaska is dependent on lake depth, ice thickness, and the fish species present. Recent winter warming suggests that more winter water will be available for ice- road construction, yet high interannual variability in ice thickness and summer precipitation complicates habitat impact assessments. To address these concerns, multidisciplinary researchers are working to understand how Arctic freshwater habitats are responding to changes in both climate and water use in northern Alaska. The dynamics of habitat availability and connectivity are being linked to how food webs support fish and waterbirds across diverse freshwater habitats. Moving toward watershed-scale habitat classification coupled with scenario analysis of climate extremes and water withdrawal is increasingly relevant to future resource management decisions in this region. Such progressive refinement in understanding responses to change provides an example of adaptive management focused on ensuring responsible resource development in the Arctic. © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarctic and Alpine Research Arctic Arctic Climate change Alaska LeibnizOpen (The Leibniz Association) Arctic |
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Vast mosaics of lakes, wetlands, and rivers on the Arctic Coastal Plain give the impression of water surplus. Yet long winters lock freshwater resources in ice, limiting freshwater habitats and water supply for human uses. Increasingly the petroleum industry relies on lakes to build temporary ice roads for winter oil exploration. Permitting water withdrawal for ice roads in Arctic Alaska is dependent on lake depth, ice thickness, and the fish species present. Recent winter warming suggests that more winter water will be available for ice- road construction, yet high interannual variability in ice thickness and summer precipitation complicates habitat impact assessments. To address these concerns, multidisciplinary researchers are working to understand how Arctic freshwater habitats are responding to changes in both climate and water use in northern Alaska. The dynamics of habitat availability and connectivity are being linked to how food webs support fish and waterbirds across diverse freshwater habitats. Moving toward watershed-scale habitat classification coupled with scenario analysis of climate extremes and water withdrawal is increasingly relevant to future resource management decisions in this region. Such progressive refinement in understanding responses to change provides an example of adaptive management focused on ensuring responsible resource development in the Arctic. © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. publishedVersion |
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Arp, Christopher D. Whitman, Matthew S. Jones, Benjamin M. Nigro, D.A. Alexeev, Vladimir Gädeke, Anne Fritz, Stacey Daanen, Ronald Liljedahl, Anna K. Adams, F.J. Gaglioti, Benjamin V. Grosse, Guido Heim, Kurt C. Beaver, R. Cai, Lei Engram, Melanie Uher-Koch, Hannah R. |
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Arp, Christopher D. Whitman, Matthew S. Jones, Benjamin M. Nigro, D.A. Alexeev, Vladimir Gädeke, Anne Fritz, Stacey Daanen, Ronald Liljedahl, Anna K. Adams, F.J. Gaglioti, Benjamin V. Grosse, Guido Heim, Kurt C. Beaver, R. Cai, Lei Engram, Melanie Uher-Koch, Hannah R. |
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Ice roads through lake-rich Arctic watersheds : Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management |
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Ice roads through lake-rich Arctic watersheds : Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management |
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Ice roads through lake-rich Arctic watersheds : Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management |
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Ice roads through lake-rich Arctic watersheds : Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management |
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Ice roads through lake-rich Arctic watersheds : Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management |
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ice roads through lake-rich arctic watersheds : integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management |
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Arctic, antarctic, and alpine research : an interdisciplinary journal 51 (2019), Nr. 1 |
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