Opportunities and limitations to detect climate-related regime shifts in inland Arctic ecosystems through eco-hydrological monitoring

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Karlsson, Johanna Mård ^a   Bring, Arvid ^a   Peterson, Garry D ^b   Gordon, Line J ^b   Destouni, Georgia ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arctic; biogeochemical cycling; climate change; eco hydrology; ecosystem dynamics; feedbacks; hydrology; monitoring; permafrost; regime shifts

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952922736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014015     Document Type: Article

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