Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses
Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes, insect outbreaks and pathogens, extreme weather events, and human activity. Climate warming in the ABZ is occurring at over twice th...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_25822 2024-04-14T08:07:17+00:00 Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses Foster, Adrianna C (author) Wang, Jonathan A (author) Frost, Gerald V (author) Davidson, Scott J (author) Hoy, Elizabeth (author) Turner, Kevin W (author) Sonnentag, Oliver (author) Epstein, Howard (author) Berner, Logan T (author) Armstrong, Amanda H (author) Kang, Mary (author) Rogers, Brendan M (author) Campbell, Elizabeth (author) Miner, Kimberley R (author) Orndahl, Kathleen M (author) Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L (author) Lutz, David A (author) French, Nancy (author) Chen, Dong (author) Du, Jinyang (author) Shestakova, Tatiana A (author) Shuman, Jacquelyn K (author) Tape, Ken (author) Virkkala, Anna-Maria (author) Potter, Christopher (author) Goetz, Scott (author) 2022-11-01 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 en eng Environmental Research Letters--Environ. Res. Lett.--1748-9326 ABoVE: Synthesis of Burned and Unburned Forest Site Data, AK and Canada, 1983-2016--10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1744 articles:25822 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 ark:/85065/d77h1pdh Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. article Text 2022 ftncar https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 2024-03-21T18:00:26Z Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes, insect outbreaks and pathogens, extreme weather events, and human activity. Climate warming in the ABZ is occurring at over twice the rate of the global average, and as a result the extent, frequency, and severity of these disturbances are increasing rapidly. Disturbances in the ABZ span a wide gradient of spatiotemporal scales and have varying impacts on ecosystem properties and function. However, many ABZ disturbances are relatively understudied and have different sensitivities to climate and trajectories of recovery, resulting in considerable uncertainty in the impacts of climate warming and human land use on ABZ vegetation dynamics and in the interactions between disturbance types. Here we review the current knowledge of ABZ disturbances and their precursors, ecosystem impacts, temporal frequencies, spatial extents, and severity. We also summarize current knowledge of interactions and feedbacks among ABZ disturbances and characterize typical trajectories of vegetation loss and recovery in response to ecosystem disturbance using satellite time-series. We conclude with a summary of critical data and knowledge gaps and identify priorities for future study. 1852977 80NSSC19M0107 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic permafrost Tundra OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Arctic Environmental Research Letters 17 11 113001 |
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Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes, insect outbreaks and pathogens, extreme weather events, and human activity. Climate warming in the ABZ is occurring at over twice the rate of the global average, and as a result the extent, frequency, and severity of these disturbances are increasing rapidly. Disturbances in the ABZ span a wide gradient of spatiotemporal scales and have varying impacts on ecosystem properties and function. However, many ABZ disturbances are relatively understudied and have different sensitivities to climate and trajectories of recovery, resulting in considerable uncertainty in the impacts of climate warming and human land use on ABZ vegetation dynamics and in the interactions between disturbance types. Here we review the current knowledge of ABZ disturbances and their precursors, ecosystem impacts, temporal frequencies, spatial extents, and severity. We also summarize current knowledge of interactions and feedbacks among ABZ disturbances and characterize typical trajectories of vegetation loss and recovery in response to ecosystem disturbance using satellite time-series. We conclude with a summary of critical data and knowledge gaps and identify priorities for future study. 1852977 80NSSC19M0107 |
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Foster, Adrianna C (author) Wang, Jonathan A (author) Frost, Gerald V (author) Davidson, Scott J (author) Hoy, Elizabeth (author) Turner, Kevin W (author) Sonnentag, Oliver (author) Epstein, Howard (author) Berner, Logan T (author) Armstrong, Amanda H (author) Kang, Mary (author) Rogers, Brendan M (author) Campbell, Elizabeth (author) Miner, Kimberley R (author) Orndahl, Kathleen M (author) Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L (author) Lutz, David A (author) French, Nancy (author) Chen, Dong (author) Du, Jinyang (author) Shestakova, Tatiana A (author) Shuman, Jacquelyn K (author) Tape, Ken (author) Virkkala, Anna-Maria (author) Potter, Christopher (author) Goetz, Scott (author) |
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses |
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Environmental Research Letters--Environ. Res. Lett.--1748-9326 ABoVE: Synthesis of Burned and Unburned Forest Site Data, AK and Canada, 1983-2016--10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1744 articles:25822 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7 ark:/85065/d77h1pdh |
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