The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic
Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0264 Sea ice has been suggested to be an important factor for dispersal of vascular plants in the Arctic. To assess its role for postglacial colonization in the North Atlantic region, we compiled data on the first Late Glacial to Holoc...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/10514 2023-05-15T14:25:07+02:00 The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic Alsos, Inger Greve Ehrich, Dorothee Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig Bennike, Ole Kirchhefer, Andreas Geirsdottir, Aslaug 2016-09 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10514 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0264 eng eng Royal Society Publishing Biology Letters Alsos IG, Ehrich D, Seidenkrantz M, Bennike O, Kirchhefer AJ, Geirsdottir A. The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic. Biology Letters. 2016;12(9) FRIDAID 1421427 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0264 1744-9561 1744-957X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10514 openAccess VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488 VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Ecology: 488 Arctic climate change plant colonization plant dispersal driftwood sea ice Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2016 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0264 2021-06-25T17:55:10Z Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0264 Sea ice has been suggested to be an important factor for dispersal of vascular plants in the Arctic. To assess its role for postglacial colonization in the North Atlantic region, we compiled data on the first Late Glacial to Holocene occurrence of vascular plant species in East Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Svalbard. For each record, we reconstructed likely past dispersal events using data on species distributions and genetics. We compared these data to sea-ice reconstructions to evaluate the potential role of sea ice in these past colonization events and finally evaluated these results using a compilation of driftwood records as an independent source of evidence that sea ice can disperse biological material. Our results show that sea ice was, in general, more prevalent along the most likely dispersal routes at times of assumed first colonization than along other possible routes. Also, driftwood is frequently dispersed in regions that have sea ice today. Thus, sea ice may act as an important dispersal agent. Melting sea ice may hamper future dispersal of Arctic plants and thereby cause more genetic differentiation. It may also limit the northwards expansion of competing boreal species, and hence favour the persistence of Arctic species. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change East Greenland Faroe Islands Greenland Iceland North Atlantic Sea ice Svalbard University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Faroe Islands Greenland Svalbard Biology Letters 12 9 20160264 |
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Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0264 Sea ice has been suggested to be an important factor for dispersal of vascular plants in the Arctic. To assess its role for postglacial colonization in the North Atlantic region, we compiled data on the first Late Glacial to Holocene occurrence of vascular plant species in East Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Svalbard. For each record, we reconstructed likely past dispersal events using data on species distributions and genetics. We compared these data to sea-ice reconstructions to evaluate the potential role of sea ice in these past colonization events and finally evaluated these results using a compilation of driftwood records as an independent source of evidence that sea ice can disperse biological material. Our results show that sea ice was, in general, more prevalent along the most likely dispersal routes at times of assumed first colonization than along other possible routes. Also, driftwood is frequently dispersed in regions that have sea ice today. Thus, sea ice may act as an important dispersal agent. Melting sea ice may hamper future dispersal of Arctic plants and thereby cause more genetic differentiation. It may also limit the northwards expansion of competing boreal species, and hence favour the persistence of Arctic species. |
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Alsos, Inger Greve Ehrich, Dorothee Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig Bennike, Ole Kirchhefer, Andreas Geirsdottir, Aslaug |
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Alsos, Inger Greve Ehrich, Dorothee Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig Bennike, Ole Kirchhefer, Andreas Geirsdottir, Aslaug |
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The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic |
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The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic |
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The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic |
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The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic |
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The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic |
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role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the arctic |
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Arctic Arctic Climate change East Greenland Faroe Islands Greenland Iceland North Atlantic Sea ice Svalbard |
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Biology Letters Alsos IG, Ehrich D, Seidenkrantz M, Bennike O, Kirchhefer AJ, Geirsdottir A. The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic. Biology Letters. 2016;12(9) FRIDAID 1421427 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0264 1744-9561 1744-957X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10514 |
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