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The second International Symposium on the Arctic Research (ISAR-2): Brief overview
- Source :
- Polar Science. 6(1):1-4
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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Abstract
- The Arctic and the surrounding region of the sub-Arctic represent a key area for the study of global change because the anthropogenic impact, particularly the rate of warming, is projected to be the greatest in any part of the world due to the complicated feedback processes which occur. This Arctic region has undergone very large changes in recent years due to global warming, and accelerated change is predicted. The rapid changes that are occurring in the Arctic, and that have been the topic of the ISAR-1 and ISAR-2 conferences, manifest themselves at a number of scales. The large scales are Arctic-wide changes in key environmental parameters, which are described in a series of papers in this issue. On a more subtle scale we see changes to species and to biological processes in the Arctic. We hope that readers will enjoy the range of papers published in this issue, and will appreciate that phenomena ranging in scale from global radiation balance to clutch size of birds' eggs are actually all related via the central fact of the present-day Arctic, its high rate of warming.
- Subjects :
- High rate
Ecology
Range (biology)
Global warming
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
Global change
Sub-arctic
Aquatic Science
The arctic
ISAR-2
Sub arctic
Geography
Arctic
Climatology
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Physical geography
Arctic ecology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18739652
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Polar Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....05f370b350fe3d5afac13b9812f73eaf
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2012.03.005