Climate change and biodiversity in the Arctic—Nordic perspectives

This paper is based upon a presentation given on United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Environment Day, 5 June 2007, as part of the Nordic Perspectives session of the climate change conference Melting Ice—A Hot Topic? The broad aims of this paper are to define biodiversity and ecosystem...

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Published in:Polar Research
Main Author: Wookey, Philip
Other Authors: Biological and Environmental Sciences, orcid:0000-0001-5957-6424
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing (Published in partnership with the Norwegian Polar Institute) 2007
Subjects:
Arctic
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
Ecosystem services
Global change
Tundra
Climatic changes Environmental aspects
Global environmental change
Climatic changes Arctic regions
Biodiversity Arctic regions
ACIA
Arctic biodiversity
CAFF
Climate change
Polar Research
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1893/755
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-8369.2007.00035.x
http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/755/1/por_028.pdf
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Summary:This paper is based upon a presentation given on United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Environment Day, 5 June 2007, as part of the Nordic Perspectives session of the climate change conference Melting Ice—A Hot Topic? The broad aims of this paper are to define biodiversity and ecosystem services, to set the biodiversity of the Arctic terrestrial realm into its global context, and, through the use of case studies, to illustrate how environmental change can influence biodiversity and ecosystems, and to explore what the implications of these changes might be. A comprehensive treatment of the topic is well beyond the scope of both the presentation and this paper, but the reader is directed to the CAFF (2001) and ACIA (2005) reports for reviews and synthesis.

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