Multi-decadal changes in tundra environments and ecosystems: synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF)

• Published in: AMBIO
• Main Authors: Callaghan, Terry V., Tweedie, Craig E., Akerman, Jonas, Andrews, Christopher, Bergstedt, Johan, Butler, Malcolm G., Christensen, Torben R., Cooley, Dorothy, Dahlberg, Ulrika, Danby, Ryan K., Daniëls, Fred J.A., de Molenaar, Johannes G., Dick, Jan, Ebbe Mortensen, Christian, Ebert-May, Diane, Emanuelsson, Urban, Eriksson, Håkan, Hedenås, Henrik, Henry, Greg H.R., Hik, David S., Hobbie, John E., Jantze, Elin J., Jaspers, Cornelia, Johansson, Cecilia, Johansson, Margareta, Johnson, David R., Johnstone, Jill F., Jonasson, Christer, Kennedy, Catherine, Kenney, Alice J., Keuper, Frida, Koh, Saewan, Krebs, Charles J., Lantuit, Hugues, Lara, Mark J., Lin, David, Lougheed, Vanessa L., Madsen, Jesper, Matveyeva, Nadya, McEwen, Daniel C., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Narozhniy, Yuriy K., Olsson, Håkan, Pohjola, Veijo A., Price, Larry W., Rigét, Frank, Rundqvist, Sara, Sandström, Anneli, Tamstorf, Mikkel, Van Bogaert, Rik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Ecology and Environment; Earth Sciences; Arctic; Yukon; Greenland; Herschel Island; Herschel; International Polar Year; IPY; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15300/; http://www.springerlink.com/content/q162412324624t15/

Understanding the responses of tundra systems to global change has global implications. Most tundra regions lack sustained environmental monitoring and one of the only ways to document multi-decadal change is to resample historic research sites. The International Polar Year (IPY) provided a unique o...