Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment

This book addresses the significant environmental changes experienced by high latitude and high altitude ecosystems at the beginning of the 21st c- tury. Increased temperatures and precipitation, reduction in sea ice and glacier ice, the increased levels of UV-radiation and the long-range tra- porte...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ørbæk, Jon Børre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kallenborn, Roland (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Tombre, Ingunn (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hegseth, Else N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Falk-Petersen, Stig (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hoel, Alf H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Arctic-Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment — Introduction
  • Integrated aspects of environmental change: Climate change, UV radiation and long range transport of pollutants
  • An environment at risk: Arctic indigenous peoples, local livelihoods and climate change
  • Climate change and ecosystem response
  • Climate variation in the European sector of the Arctic: Observations and scenarios
  • Impact of climate change on arctic and alpine lakes: Effects on phenology and community dynamics
  • Changes in growing season in Fennoscandia 1982–1999
  • Northern climates and woody plant distribution
  • Topographic complexity and terrestrial biotic response to high-latitude climate change: Variance is as important as the mean
  • The flow of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean
  • Climate variability and possible effects on arctic food chains: The role of Calanus
  • Adjustment to reality: Social responses to climate changes in Greenland
  • UV radiation and biological effects
  • Factors, trends and scenarios of UV radiation in arctic-alpine environments
  • Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation and epidermal UV screening in arctic and alpine plants
  • Effects of UV radiation in arctic and alpine freshwater ecosystems
  • Climate control of biological UV exposure in polar and alpine aquatic ecosystems
  • Effects of UV radiation on seaweeds
  • Climate and ozone change effects on UV-radiation and health risks
  • Long range pollutants transport and ecological impacts
  • Contaminants, global change and cold regions
  • Modeling of long-range transport of contaminants from potential sources in the Arctic Ocean by water and sea ice
  • Long-term atmospheric contaminant monitoring for the elucidation of airborne transport processes into polar regions
  • Levels and effects of persistent organic pollutants in arctic animals
  • Arctic health problems and environmental challenges in Greenland.