Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape
Prediction of high latitude response to climate change is hampered by poor understanding of the role of nonlinear changes in ecosystem forcing and response. While the effects of nonlinear climate change are often delayed or dampened by internal ecosystem dynamics, recent warming events in the Arctic...
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ftloughboroughun:oai:figshare.com:article/9483569 2023-05-15T14:51:34+02:00 Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape Jasmine E. Saros Nicholas John Anderson Stephen Juggins Suzanne McGowan Jacob C. Yde Jon Telling Joanna Bullard Marian L. Yallop Adam J. Heathcote Benjamin T. Burpee Rachel A. Fowler Chris D. Barry Robert M. Northington Christopher L. Osburn Sergi Pla-Rabes Sebastian H. Mernild Erika J. Whiteford M. Grace Andrews Jeff Kerby Eric Post 2019-07-16T00:00:00Z https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Arctic_climate_shifts_drive_rapid_ecosystem_responses_across_the_West_Greenland_landscape/9483569 unknown 2134/38085 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Arctic_climate_shifts_drive_rapid_ecosystem_responses_across_the_West_Greenland_landscape/9483569 CC BY 3.0 CC-BY Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified untagged Text Journal contribution 2019 ftloughboroughun 2022-01-01T19:29:33Z Prediction of high latitude response to climate change is hampered by poor understanding of the role of nonlinear changes in ecosystem forcing and response. While the effects of nonlinear climate change are often delayed or dampened by internal ecosystem dynamics, recent warming events in the Arctic have driven rapid environmental response, raising questions of how terrestrial and freshwater systems in this region may shift in response to abrupt climate change. We quantified environmental responses to recent abrupt climate change in West Greenland using long-term monitoring and paleoecological reconstructions. Using >40 years of weather data, we found that after 1994, mean June air temperatures shifted 2.2ºC higher and mean winter precipitation doubled from 21 to 40 mm; since 2006, mean July air temperatures shifted 1.1ºC higher. Nonlinear environmental responses occurred with or shortly after these abrupt climate shifts, including increasing ice sheet discharge, increasing dust, advancing plant phenology, and in lakes, earlier ice out and greater diversity of algal functional traits. Our analyses reveal rapid environmental responses to nonlinear climate shifts, underscoring the highly responsive nature of Arctic ecosystems to abrupt transitions. Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Greenland Ice Sheet Loughborough University: Figshare Arctic Greenland |
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Prediction of high latitude response to climate change is hampered by poor understanding of the role of nonlinear changes in ecosystem forcing and response. While the effects of nonlinear climate change are often delayed or dampened by internal ecosystem dynamics, recent warming events in the Arctic have driven rapid environmental response, raising questions of how terrestrial and freshwater systems in this region may shift in response to abrupt climate change. We quantified environmental responses to recent abrupt climate change in West Greenland using long-term monitoring and paleoecological reconstructions. Using >40 years of weather data, we found that after 1994, mean June air temperatures shifted 2.2ºC higher and mean winter precipitation doubled from 21 to 40 mm; since 2006, mean July air temperatures shifted 1.1ºC higher. Nonlinear environmental responses occurred with or shortly after these abrupt climate shifts, including increasing ice sheet discharge, increasing dust, advancing plant phenology, and in lakes, earlier ice out and greater diversity of algal functional traits. Our analyses reveal rapid environmental responses to nonlinear climate shifts, underscoring the highly responsive nature of Arctic ecosystems to abrupt transitions. |
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Jasmine E. Saros Nicholas John Anderson Stephen Juggins Suzanne McGowan Jacob C. Yde Jon Telling Joanna Bullard Marian L. Yallop Adam J. Heathcote Benjamin T. Burpee Rachel A. Fowler Chris D. Barry Robert M. Northington Christopher L. Osburn Sergi Pla-Rabes Sebastian H. Mernild Erika J. Whiteford M. Grace Andrews Jeff Kerby Eric Post |
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Jasmine E. Saros Nicholas John Anderson Stephen Juggins Suzanne McGowan Jacob C. Yde Jon Telling Joanna Bullard Marian L. Yallop Adam J. Heathcote Benjamin T. Burpee Rachel A. Fowler Chris D. Barry Robert M. Northington Christopher L. Osburn Sergi Pla-Rabes Sebastian H. Mernild Erika J. Whiteford M. Grace Andrews Jeff Kerby Eric Post |
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Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape |
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Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape |
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Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape |
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Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape |
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Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape |
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arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the west greenland landscape |
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