test bIodIversIty – why It mAtters
... Biodiversity also can be associated with the health of a culture. Among Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples, and Indigenous Peoples around the world, cultural identity is often linked to key natural resources. For Inuit, the harvesting of caribou, seal, char, and whale are important elements of cultural ide ...
... Biodiversity also can be associated with the health of a culture. Among Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples, and Indigenous Peoples around the world, cultural identity is often linked to key natural resources. For Inuit, the harvesting of caribou, seal, char, and whale are important elements of cultural ide ...
Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity Monitoring Plan
... The CBMP-Terrestrial Plan includes terrestrial species and ecosystems in the Arctic, sub-Arctic, and high latitude alpine regions adjacent to and continuous to these environments. Study sites depict the location of long-term monitoring sites, programs and infrastructure that can contribute to monito ...
... The CBMP-Terrestrial Plan includes terrestrial species and ecosystems in the Arctic, sub-Arctic, and high latitude alpine regions adjacent to and continuous to these environments. Study sites depict the location of long-term monitoring sites, programs and infrastructure that can contribute to monito ...
Third Circular for the ASSW 2015
... A3: Ice mass loss in Greenland and Arctic glaciers under the influence of changing atmosphere and the ocean A4: Geospace over and related to the Arctic region A5: The climatic threat from Arctic offshore methane A6: Climate and ecosystem vulnerability in the terrestrial northern high-latitud ...
... A3: Ice mass loss in Greenland and Arctic glaciers under the influence of changing atmosphere and the ocean A4: Geospace over and related to the Arctic region A5: The climatic threat from Arctic offshore methane A6: Climate and ecosystem vulnerability in the terrestrial northern high-latitud ...
summary - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
... processes, though which may be periodically impacted by pronounced climatic variability. • We caution that: 1. Previous research to simulate and describe the effects of climate warming might not have properly accounted for the dynamic role of periglacial geomorphology in regulating the tundra vegeta ...
... processes, though which may be periodically impacted by pronounced climatic variability. • We caution that: 1. Previous research to simulate and describe the effects of climate warming might not have properly accounted for the dynamic role of periglacial geomorphology in regulating the tundra vegeta ...
The Geologic History of ANWR The purpose of this section is to
... The Geologic History of ANWR The purpose of this section is to provide everyone with a basic understanding of how ANWR came about, geologically speaking. This information is important in understanding why hydrocarbons are where they are, and is also important in understanding its current geological ...
... The Geologic History of ANWR The purpose of this section is to provide everyone with a basic understanding of how ANWR came about, geologically speaking. This information is important in understanding why hydrocarbons are where they are, and is also important in understanding its current geological ...
Polar Ecosystems: The Arctic
... Marine ecosystems in the Arctic face the challenges of reduced sunlight under the ice & water that’s barely above freezing. For these reasons, diversity of organisms is limited under the permanent ice cap. Species that do live in these conditions have special adaptations. These include antifre ...
... Marine ecosystems in the Arctic face the challenges of reduced sunlight under the ice & water that’s barely above freezing. For these reasons, diversity of organisms is limited under the permanent ice cap. Species that do live in these conditions have special adaptations. These include antifre ...
Scottish Association of Marine Sciences (SAMS)/NERC PDF
... •Current and Future Developments •Polar Sciences Working Group: “The NERC strategy and the UK national interest favour an increase in Arctic science” •MoU with Arctic Nations: Canada (2008) Shared access to logistics in Arctic and Antarctic •Ship time: James Clark Ross •Supports SIAEOS ...
... •Current and Future Developments •Polar Sciences Working Group: “The NERC strategy and the UK national interest favour an increase in Arctic science” •MoU with Arctic Nations: Canada (2008) Shared access to logistics in Arctic and Antarctic •Ship time: James Clark Ross •Supports SIAEOS ...
Arctic One Health: Strategy for Resiliency
... The complex impacts of climate change call for multidisciplinary stakeholder collaborations to advance our fundamental understanding of emerging health threats, and for the development of initiatives that decrease vulnerabilities of the Arctic communities and the ecosystems. A One Health approach ad ...
... The complex impacts of climate change call for multidisciplinary stakeholder collaborations to advance our fundamental understanding of emerging health threats, and for the development of initiatives that decrease vulnerabilities of the Arctic communities and the ecosystems. A One Health approach ad ...
The Arctic Biodiversity Assessment
... The Arctic is home to over 21,000 species, including many globally significant populations of unique and highly cold-adapted mammals, birds, fish, invertebrates, plants, fungi and microorganisms, some found nowhere else on Earth. In addition to its intrinsic worth, Arctic biodiversity provides innum ...
... The Arctic is home to over 21,000 species, including many globally significant populations of unique and highly cold-adapted mammals, birds, fish, invertebrates, plants, fungi and microorganisms, some found nowhere else on Earth. In addition to its intrinsic worth, Arctic biodiversity provides innum ...
TUNDRA-TAIGA BIOLOGY: HUMAN, PLANT, AND ANIMAL
... is an extremely welcome up-to-date review about human, plant and animal survival in the Arctic. It provides a circumpolar perspective on adaptation of terrestrial animals and plants inhabiting the cold climate regions of the tundra and adjacent boreal forest (taiga). The questions related to evoluti ...
... is an extremely welcome up-to-date review about human, plant and animal survival in the Arctic. It provides a circumpolar perspective on adaptation of terrestrial animals and plants inhabiting the cold climate regions of the tundra and adjacent boreal forest (taiga). The questions related to evoluti ...
Poster-11-ArcticRefuge
... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fairbanks, Alaska Northern Alaska is one of the fastest warming regions of the world, with increases documented in both air and soil temperatures over the past three decades. Interpretation of historical aerial photographs and satellite images is a practical means of ...
... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fairbanks, Alaska Northern Alaska is one of the fastest warming regions of the world, with increases documented in both air and soil temperatures over the past three decades. Interpretation of historical aerial photographs and satellite images is a practical means of ...
Bowden, Breck (UVM) - Toolik Field Station
... from bedrock to the top of the vegetative canopy, in which the evolution of Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate can be modeled at the scale of a high resolution Earth System Model (ESM) grid cell • NASA/ABoVE: Focus on key process associated with the land surface, and on key interfaces between t ...
... from bedrock to the top of the vegetative canopy, in which the evolution of Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate can be modeled at the scale of a high resolution Earth System Model (ESM) grid cell • NASA/ABoVE: Focus on key process associated with the land surface, and on key interfaces between t ...
Greyscale, fewer pictures
... - coldest, driest, windiest and least accessible area - I/10th of earth’s surface, 98% ice-covered - -89o C, coldest temperature on polar plateau - ice in middle of continent 3 km thick - 20-40 million years old, many different species - high degree of endemism (70-90% in various groups) - absence o ...
... - coldest, driest, windiest and least accessible area - I/10th of earth’s surface, 98% ice-covered - -89o C, coldest temperature on polar plateau - ice in middle of continent 3 km thick - 20-40 million years old, many different species - high degree of endemism (70-90% in various groups) - absence o ...
Arctic Tundra - Mercer Island School District
... This area does not want a tan! Please help by being environmentally responsible and reducing your carbon footprint. Air pollution also contaminates the significant food source lichen. ...
... This area does not want a tan! Please help by being environmentally responsible and reducing your carbon footprint. Air pollution also contaminates the significant food source lichen. ...
Tundra - Edublogs
... world. Fierce winds blow while snow and ice cover the ground. Even the sea freezes as the temperature gets colder. The tundra receives less than 10 inches of precipitation yearly. The tundra has a short summer, the temperature only rises to about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The awerage yearly temperature ...
... world. Fierce winds blow while snow and ice cover the ground. Even the sea freezes as the temperature gets colder. The tundra receives less than 10 inches of precipitation yearly. The tundra has a short summer, the temperature only rises to about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The awerage yearly temperature ...
The changing seasonality of soil processes in the arctic tundra of
... • The start date of snow cover over the Arctic has been stable • Similar trends in declining spring snowmelt for Eurasian & N. American arctic http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/sno w.html ...
... • The start date of snow cover over the Arctic has been stable • Similar trends in declining spring snowmelt for Eurasian & N. American arctic http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/sno w.html ...
Risk and reward - Atlantic Business Magazine
... the Deepwater Horizon in 2009, in the Tiber Oil Field southeast of Texas (10,684 m). The rig exploded in 2010, triggering the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history and endangering thousands of species. With an average depth of 1,038 m, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest ocean in th ...
... the Deepwater Horizon in 2009, in the Tiber Oil Field southeast of Texas (10,684 m). The rig exploded in 2010, triggering the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history and endangering thousands of species. With an average depth of 1,038 m, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest ocean in th ...
Tundra - AP Environmental Science at Seton
... Thick spongy mat of low growing plants ◦ grasses ◦ mosses ◦ lichens ◦ dwarf shrubs Animals and insects ◦ mosquitoes ◦ black flies ◦ birds ◦ polar bears ◦ arctic wolves and foxes ◦ caribou ◦ musk oxen Low diversity Low species richness High species evenness ◦ only a few species of plants an ...
... Thick spongy mat of low growing plants ◦ grasses ◦ mosses ◦ lichens ◦ dwarf shrubs Animals and insects ◦ mosquitoes ◦ black flies ◦ birds ◦ polar bears ◦ arctic wolves and foxes ◦ caribou ◦ musk oxen Low diversity Low species richness High species evenness ◦ only a few species of plants an ...
Arctic ecology
Arctic ecology is the scientific study of the relationships between biotic and abiotic factors in the arctic, the region north of the Arctic Circle (66 33’). This is a region characterized by stressful conditions as a result of extreme cold, low precipitation, a limited growing season (50–90 days) and virtually no sunlight throughout the winter. The Arctic consists of taiga (or boreal forest) and tundra biomes, which also dominate very high elevations, even in the tropics. Sensitive ecosystems exist throughout the Arctic region, which are being impacted dramatically by global warming. The earliest inhabitants of the Arctic were the Neanderthals. Since then, many indigenous populations have inhabited the region, which continues to this day. Since the early 1900s, when Vilhjalmur Stefansson led the first major Canadian Arctic Expedition, the Arctic has been a valued area for ecological research. In 1946, The Arctic Research Laboratory was established in Point Barrow, Alaska under the contract of the Office of Naval Research. This launched an interest in exploring the Arctic examining animal cycles, permafrost and the interactions between indigenous peoples and the Arctic ecology. During the Cold War, the Arctic became a place where the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union performed significant research that has been essential to the study of climate change in recent years. A major reason why research in the Arctic is essential for the study of climate change is because the effects of climate change will be felt more quickly and more drastically in higher latitudes of the world as above average temperatures are predicted for Northwest Canada and Alaska. From an anthropological point of view, researchers study the native Inuit peoples of Alaska as they have become extremely accustomed to adapting to ecological and climate variability.