The Arctic in the twenty-first century: changing biogeochemical linkages across a paraglacial landscape of Greenland

• Published in: BioScience
• Main Authors: Anderson, NJ, Saros, JE, Bullard, JE, Cahoon, SMP, McGowan, S, Bagshaw, EA, Barry, CD, Bindler, R, Burpee, BT, Carrivick, JL, Fowler, RA, Fox, AD, Fritz, SC, Giles, ME, Hamerlik, L, Ingeman-Nielsen, T, Law, AC, Mernild, SH, Northington, RM, Osburn, CL, Pla-Rabès, S, Post, E, Telling, J, Stroud, DA, Whiteford, EJ, Yallop, ML, Yde, JC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34178/; http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34178/1/11644_Whiteford.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw158

The Kangerlussuaq area of southwest Greenland encompasses diverse ecological, geomorphic, and climate gradients that function over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Ecosystems range from the microbial communities on the ice sheet and moisture-stressed terrestrial vegetation (and their associat...