The missing pieces for better future predictions in subarctic ecosystems: A Tornetrask case study.

ABSTRACT: Arctic and subarctic ecosystems are experiencing substantial changes in hydrology, vegetation, permafrost conditions, and carbon cycling, in response to climatic change and other anthropogenic drivers, and these changes are likely to continue over this century. The total magnitude of these changes results from multiple interactions among these drivers. Field measurements can address the overall responses to different changing drivers, but are less capable of quantifying the interactions among them. Currently, a comprehensive assessment of the drivers of ecosystem changes, and the magnitude of their direct and indirect impacts on subarctic ecosystems, is missing. The Torneträsk area, in the Swedish subarctic, has an unrivalled history of environmental observation over 100 years, and is one

SUBMITTER: Pascual D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7782653 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature