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University of Lapland
Education•Rovaniemi, Finland•
About: University of Lapland is a education organization based out in Rovaniemi, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Arctic & Indigenous. The organization has 665 authors who have published 1870 publications receiving 39129 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Rovaniemi & Lapin yliopisto.
Topics: Arctic, Indigenous, Climate change, Tundra, Tourism
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University of Copenhagen1, University of Jyväskylä2, University of Liverpool3, University of Latvia4, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague5, Mid Sweden University6, Daugavpils University7, University of Eastern Finland8, University of Helsinki9, University of Lapland10, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences11, Forest Research Institute12
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce northern forests as an ecosystem, discuss the historical and recent human impact and provide a brief status report on the ecological restoration projects and research already conducted there, and identify the most important challenges that need to be solved in order to carry out efficient restoration with powerful and long-term positive impacts on biodiversity.
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TL;DR: Habitat selection of wintering land-birds was studied in 31 human settlements in Finland and three corvid species populations, P. domesticus and Columba livia domestica were positively related to human population density and the omnivorous diet of these species was a possible reason for their success in urban environments.
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TL;DR: It is found that despite anthropogenic fragmentation and transformation of a large proportion of the environment, recent socioeconomic upheaval, and pronounced climate warming, the Yamal-Nenets SES is highly resilient according to a few key measures.
Abstract: Tundra ecosystems are vulnerable to hydrocarbon development, in part because small-scale, low-intensity disturbances can affect vegetation, permafrost soils, and wildlife out of proportion to their spatial extent. Scaling up to include human residents, tightly integrated arctic social-ecological systems (SESs) are believed similarly susceptible to industrial impacts and climate change. In contrast to northern Alaska and Canada, most terrestrial and aquatic components of West Siberian oil and gas fields are seasonally exploited by migratory herders, hunters, fishers, and domesticated reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L.). Despite anthropogenic fragmentation and transformation of a large proportion of the environment, recent socioeconomic upheaval, and pronounced climate warming, we find the Yamal-Nenets SES highly resilient according to a few key measures. We detail the remarkable extent to which the system has successfully reorganized in response to recent shocks and evaluate the limits of the system's capacity to respond. Our analytical approach combines quantitative methods with participant observation to understand the overall effects of rapid land use and climate change at the level of the entire Yamal system, detect thresholds crossed using surrogates, and identify potential traps. Institutional constraints and drivers were as important as the documented ecological changes. Particularly crucial to success is the unfettered movement of people and animals in space and time, which allows them to alternately avoid or exploit a wide range of natural and anthropogenic habitats. However, expansion of infrastructure, concomitant terrestrial and freshwater ecosystem degradation, climate change, and a massive influx of workers underway present a looming threat to future resilience.
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TL;DR: This article found that children considered learning in groups, through co-creation and turning fact into fiction, to be a rewarding way to learn, practice group work and use their imagination for a common goal.
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TL;DR: Weber et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a record of iceberg rafted debris from the Scotia Sea and showed clear signals of pulsed iceberg release from Antarctica as early as 19,000 years ago, providing the long-sought confirmation of Antarctic contributions to this major jump in sea level rise.
Abstract: Two well-dated, high-resolution records of iceberg-rafted debris are presented that document variability in Antarctic Ice Sheet discharge during the last deglaciation. Global sea levels have risen by more than 100 metres since the last glacial maximum around 20,000 years ago, with several meltwater pulses of several metres or more. In the most dramatic of these — meltwater pulse 1A — sea level rose by about 16 metres at 14,600 years ago. This magnitude of sea level rise strongly suggests major Antarctica contributions, but to date there has been no firm physical evidence. Now Michael Weber and colleagues present a record of iceberg rafted debris from the Scotia Sea and show clear signals of pulsed iceberg release from Antarctica as early as 19,000 years ago. The largest iceberg release occurred during meltwater pulse 1A, providing the long-sought confirmation of Antarctic contributions to this major jump in sea-level rise. Our understanding of the deglacial evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) following the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000–19,000 years ago)1 is based largely on a few well-dated but temporally and geographically restricted terrestrial and shallow-marine sequences2,3,4. This sparseness limits our understanding of the dominant feedbacks between the AIS, Southern Hemisphere climate and global sea level. Marine records of iceberg-rafted debris (IBRD) provide a nearly continuous signal of ice-sheet dynamics and variability. IBRD records from the North Atlantic Ocean have been widely used to reconstruct variability in Northern Hemisphere ice sheets5, but comparable records from the Southern Ocean of the AIS are lacking because of the low resolution and large dating uncertainties in existing sediment cores. Here we present two well-dated, high-resolution IBRD records that capture a spatially integrated signal of AIS variability during the last deglaciation. We document eight events of increased iceberg flux from various parts of the AIS between 20,000 and 9,000 years ago, in marked contrast to previous scenarios which identified the main AIS retreat as occurring after meltwater pulse 1A3,6,7,8 and continuing into the late Holocene epoch. The highest IBRD flux occurred 14,600 years ago, providing the first direct evidence for an Antarctic contribution to meltwater pulse 1A. Climate model simulations with AIS freshwater forcing identify a positive feedback between poleward transport of Circumpolar Deep Water, subsurface warming and AIS melt, suggesting that small perturbations to the ice sheet can be substantially enhanced, providing a possible mechanism for rapid sea-level rise.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Hong Li | 103 | 779 | 42675 |
John C. Moore | 76 | 389 | 25542 |
Jeffrey M. Welker | 57 | 179 | 18135 |
Bruce C. Forbes | 43 | 130 | 7984 |
Mats A. Granskog | 41 | 141 | 5023 |
Manfred A. Lange | 38 | 92 | 4256 |
Liisa Tyrväinen | 37 | 112 | 6649 |
Samuli Helama | 35 | 156 | 4008 |
Aslak Grinsted | 34 | 89 | 9653 |
Jukka Jokimäki | 31 | 93 | 4175 |
Sari Stark | 29 | 58 | 2559 |
Elina Lahelma | 27 | 86 | 2217 |
Jonna Häkkilä | 25 | 97 | 2185 |
Rupert Gladstone | 23 | 51 | 2320 |
Justus J. Randolph | 23 | 66 | 2160 |