Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change
- Sofia Ribeiro,
- Audrey Limoges,
- Guillaume Massé,
- Kasper L. Johansen,
- William Colgan,
- Kaarina Weckström,
- Rebecca Jackson,
- Eleanor Georgiadis,
- Naja Mikkelsen,
- Antoon Kuijpers,
- Jesper Olsen,
- Steffen M. Olsen,
- Martin Nissen,
- Thorbjørn J. Andersen,
- Astrid Strunk,
- Sebastian Wetterich,
- Jari Syväranta,
- Andrew C. G. Henderson,
- Helen Mackay,
- Sami Taipale,
- Erik Jeppesen,
- Nicolaj K. Larsen,
- Xavier Crosta,
- Jacques Giraudeau,
- Simone Wengrat,
- Mark Nuttall,
- Bjarne Grønnow,
- Anders Mosbech,
- Thomas A. Davidson
Affiliations
- Sofia Ribeiro
- Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Audrey Limoges
- Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Guillaume Massé
- Université Laval, CNRS, UMI 3376 TAKUVIK
- Kasper L. Johansen
- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Center, Aarhus University
- William Colgan
- Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Kaarina Weckström
- Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Rebecca Jackson
- Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Eleanor Georgiadis
- Université Laval, CNRS, UMI 3376 TAKUVIK
- Naja Mikkelsen
- Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Antoon Kuijpers
- Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Jesper Olsen
- Aarhus AMS Centre (AARAMS), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
- Steffen M. Olsen
- Danish Meteorological Institute
- Martin Nissen
- Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency
- Thorbjørn J. Andersen
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
- Astrid Strunk
- Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University
- Sebastian Wetterich
- Department of Permafrost Research, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research
- Jari Syväranta
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
- Andrew C. G. Henderson
- School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University
- Helen Mackay
- School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University
- Sami Taipale
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Nanoscience center, University of Jyväskylä
- Erik Jeppesen
- Lake Group & Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University
- Nicolaj K. Larsen
- Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University
- Xavier Crosta
- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC
- Jacques Giraudeau
- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC
- Simone Wengrat
- Department of Biology, Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz
- Mark Nuttall
- Pinngortitaleriffik/Greenland Institute for Natural Resources
- Bjarne Grønnow
- National Museum of Denmark
- Anders Mosbech
- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Center, Aarhus University
- Thomas A. Davidson
- Lake Group & Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
The North Water polynya is a unique but vulnerable ecosystem, home to Indigenous people and Arctic keystone species. New palaeoecological records from Greenland suggest human abandonment c. 2200–1200 cal yrs BP occurred during climate-forced polynya instability, foreshadowing future ecosystem declines.
