New Book Available
Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 40: High-Arctic Ecosystem
Dynamics in a Changing Climate - Ten years of monitoring and research at
Zackenberg Research Station, Northeast Greenland
Edited by Hans Meltofte, Torben R. Christensen, Bo Elberling, Mads C.
Forchhammer and Morten Rasch
Available at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/714651/descri…
A new book on the effects of climate variability and change in the High
Arctic is now available: Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 40:
High-Arctic Ecosystem Dynamics in a Changing Climate - Ten years of
monitoring and research at Zackenberg Research Station, Northeast
Greenland. The climatic consequences of ongoing climate changes have
been most pronounced in the Arctic, and will continue to be so in the
future. As a contribution to the fast growing area of research into the
effects and feedbacks of climate change, Zackenberg Research Station was
established in high-arctic Northeast Greenland in 1995 with the purpose
of describing an entire ecosystem and monitoring how structure and function
respond to climate variability and change. Since then, concurrent
changes in weather and climate related effects have been monitored in
detail, supplemented annually by short-term, in-depth research projects.
This book, edited by Hans Meltofte, Torben R. Christensen, Bo Elberling,
Mads C. Forchhammer and Morten Rasch, presents the results of work
completed at the Zackenberg Research Station. It focuses on the physical
and biological key elements and their interactions. Many results
reported in this book have been published in the international
scientific literature, whereas other aspects are presented here for the
first time. In both cases, results reported in the book are specifically
merged into a larger perspective of arctic ecology and climate change.
As a result, this book presents the first synthesis of comprehensive
interdisciplinary knowledge collected within a single arctic ecosystem
over 10 consecutive years.
The book may serve particularly well as a textbook on structure and
function of a high-arctic ecosystem under climate change. However,
the editors hope that any person enthused by the Arctic, as well as
climate change, will find this book interesting. This book documents
that high-arctic systems are highly sensitive to climate change and
that, even within a decadal timeframe, species and systems display
marked and, in some cases, rather dramatic responses.
The book is available at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/714651/descri…