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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809983103321

Titolo

Alaska's changing arctic : ecological consequences for tundra, streams, and lakes / / edited by John E. Hobbie and George W. Kling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : LTER, Oxford University Press, , [2014]

ISBN

0-19-026788-7

0-19-936013-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series

Disciplina

577.58609798

Soggetti

Tundra ecology - Alaska

Stream ecology - Alaska

Lake ecology - Alaska

Alaska Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Alaska's Changing Arctic; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Climate and Hydrometeorology of the Toolik Lake Region and the Kuparuk River Basin: Past, Present, and Future; 3 Glacial History and Long-Term Ecology in the Toolik Lake Region; 4 Late-Quaternary Environmental and Ecological History of the ArcticFoothills, Northern Alaska; 5 Terrestrial Ecosystems at Toolik Lake, Alaska; 6 Land-Water Interactions; 7 Ecology of Streams of the Toolik Region; 8 The Response of Lakes Near the Arctic LTER to EnvironmentalChange; 9 Mercury in the Alaskan Arctic

10 Ecological Consequences of Present and Future Changesin Arctic AlaskaIndex

Sommario/riassunto

In this edition of the Long Term Ecological Research Network series, editors John Hobbie and George Kling and 58 co-authors synthesize the findings from the NSF-funded Arctic LTER project based at Toolik Lake, Alaska, a site that has been active since the mid-1970s. The book presents research on the core issues of climate-change science in the treeless arctic region of Alaska. As a whole, it 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 presen