Alaska's Changing Arctic: Ecological Consequences for Tundra, Streams, and Lakes
John E. Hobbie and George W. Kling
Abstract
This book synthesizes the findings from the NSF-funded Arctic LTER project based in Toolik Lake, Alaska, a site that has been active since the mid-1970s. The book presents research concerning the core issues of climate-change science, and addresses the treeless regions of arctic Alaska, as well as the adjoining boreal forests. The book examines both terrestrial and freshwater-aquatic ecosystems, and their three typical habitats: tundra, streams and lakes. The book provides a history of the Toolik Lake LTER site, and discusses its present condition and future outlook. The chapters create a mult ... More
This book synthesizes the findings from the NSF-funded Arctic LTER project based in Toolik Lake, Alaska, a site that has been active since the mid-1970s. The book presents research concerning the core issues of climate-change science, and addresses the treeless regions of arctic Alaska, as well as the adjoining boreal forests. The book examines both terrestrial and freshwater-aquatic ecosystems, and their three typical habitats: tundra, streams and lakes. The book provides a history of the Toolik Lake LTER site, and discusses its present condition and future outlook. The chapters create a multidisciplinary survey of the Alaskan arctic ecosystem. Topics include glacial history, climatology, land-water interactions, mercury found in the Alaskan arctic, and the response of lakes to environmental change. The final chapter brings together these findings in order to make predictions regarding the consequences that arctic Alaska faces due to global warming and climate change, and discusses the future of the LTER site in the region.
Keywords:
Arctic LTER project,
Toolik Lake,
Alaska,
climate change,
arctic ecosystems,
glacial history,
climatology,
mercury,
environmental change
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199860401 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199860401.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
John E. Hobbie, editor
The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
George W. Kling, editor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
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