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    The disappearing cryosphere : impacts and ecosystem responses to rapid cryosphere loss

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    Date
    2012-04
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    Fountain, Andrew G.  Concept link
    Campbell, John L.  Concept link
    Schuur, Edward A. G.  Concept link
    Stammerjohn, Sharon E.  Concept link
    Williams, Mark W.  Concept link
    Ducklow, Hugh W.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5201
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.11
    DOI
    10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.11
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     Cryosphere; Ecosystem response; Environmental observatories 
    Abstract
    The cryosphere—the portion of the Earth's surface where water is in solid form for at least one month of the year—has been shrinking in response to climate warming. The extents of sea ice, snow, and glaciers, for example, have been decreasing. In response, the ecosystems within the cryosphere and those that depend on the cryosphere have been changing. We identify two principal aspects of ecosystem-level responses to cryosphere loss: (1) trophodynamic alterations resulting from the loss of habitat and species loss or replacement and (2) changes in the rates and mechanisms of biogeochemical storage and cycling of carbon and nutrients, caused by changes in physical forcings or ecological community functioning. These changes affect biota in positive or negative ways, depending on how they interact with the cryosphere. The important outcome, however, is the change and the response the human social system (infrastructure, food, water, recreation) will have to that change.
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    Author Posting. © American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of American Institute of Biological Sciences for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in BioScience 62 (2012): 405-415, doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.11.
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    BioScience 62 (2012): 405-415
     

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