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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ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:434881 2023-07-30T04:00:05+02:00 Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape Saros, Jasmine E. Anderson, Nicholas John Juggins, Stephen Mcgowan, Suzanne Yde, Jacob C. Telling, Jon Bullard, Joanna E. Yallop, Marian L. Heathcote, Adam J. Burpee, Benjamin T. Fowler, Rachel A. Barry, Christopher D. Northington, Robert M. Osburn, Christopher L. Pla-Rabes, Sergi Mernild, Sebastian H. Whiteford, Erika J. Andrews, M. Grace Kerby, Jeffrey T. Post, Eric 2019-07-16 text https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/434881/ https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/434881/1/Saros_2019_Environ._Res._Lett._14_074027.pdf en English eng https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/434881/1/Saros_2019_Environ._Res._Lett._14_074027.pdf Saros, Jasmine E., Anderson, Nicholas John, Juggins, Stephen, Mcgowan, Suzanne, Yde, Jacob C., Telling, Jon, Bullard, Joanna E., Yallop, Marian L., Heathcote, Adam J., Burpee, Benjamin T., Fowler, Rachel A., Barry, Christopher D., Northington, Robert M., Osburn, Christopher L., Pla-Rabes, Sergi, Mernild, Sebastian H., Whiteford, Erika J., Andrews, M. Grace, Kerby, Jeffrey T. and Post, Eric (2019) Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape. Environmental Research Letters, 14 (7), [074027]. (doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab2928 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2928>). cc_by_4 Article PeerReviewed 2019 ftsouthampton https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2928 2023-07-09T22:32:25Z 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 2.2 °C higher and mean winter precipitation doubled from 21 to 40 mm; since 2006, mean July air temperatures shifted 1.1 °C 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change Greenland Ice Sheet University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Arctic Greenland Environmental Research Letters 14 7 074027 |
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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 2.2 °C higher and mean winter precipitation doubled from 21 to 40 mm; since 2006, mean July air temperatures shifted 1.1 °C 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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Saros, Jasmine E. Anderson, Nicholas John Juggins, Stephen Mcgowan, Suzanne Yde, Jacob C. Telling, Jon Bullard, Joanna E. Yallop, Marian L. Heathcote, Adam J. Burpee, Benjamin T. Fowler, Rachel A. Barry, Christopher D. Northington, Robert M. Osburn, Christopher L. Pla-Rabes, Sergi Mernild, Sebastian H. Whiteford, Erika J. Andrews, M. Grace Kerby, Jeffrey T. Post, Eric |
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Saros, Jasmine E. Anderson, Nicholas John Juggins, Stephen Mcgowan, Suzanne Yde, Jacob C. Telling, Jon Bullard, Joanna E. Yallop, Marian L. Heathcote, Adam J. Burpee, Benjamin T. Fowler, Rachel A. Barry, Christopher D. Northington, Robert M. Osburn, Christopher L. Pla-Rabes, Sergi Mernild, Sebastian H. Whiteford, Erika J. Andrews, M. Grace Kerby, Jeffrey T. Post, Eric Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape |
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Saros, Jasmine E. Anderson, Nicholas John Juggins, Stephen Mcgowan, Suzanne Yde, Jacob C. Telling, Jon Bullard, Joanna E. Yallop, Marian L. Heathcote, Adam J. Burpee, Benjamin T. Fowler, Rachel A. Barry, Christopher D. Northington, Robert M. Osburn, Christopher L. Pla-Rabes, Sergi Mernild, Sebastian H. Whiteford, Erika J. Andrews, M. Grace Kerby, Jeffrey T. Post, Eric |
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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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https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/434881/1/Saros_2019_Environ._Res._Lett._14_074027.pdf Saros, Jasmine E., Anderson, Nicholas John, Juggins, Stephen, Mcgowan, Suzanne, Yde, Jacob C., Telling, Jon, Bullard, Joanna E., Yallop, Marian L., Heathcote, Adam J., Burpee, Benjamin T., Fowler, Rachel A., Barry, Christopher D., Northington, Robert M., Osburn, Christopher L., Pla-Rabes, Sergi, Mernild, Sebastian H., Whiteford, Erika J., Andrews, M. Grace, Kerby, Jeffrey T. and Post, Eric (2019) Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape. Environmental Research Letters, 14 (7), [074027]. (doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab2928 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2928>). |
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