Temporal trends and variability in a high-arctic ecosystem in Greenland: multidimensional analyses of limnic and terrestrial ecosystems

Polar Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1073-1082

  Mortensen, Lars O ^a,b   Jeppesen, Erik ^a,b   Schmidt, Niels Martin ^a   Christoffersen, Kirsten S ^c   Tamstorf, Mikkel P ^a   Forchhammer, Mads C ^a,b,d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic ecosystems; Greenland; Temporal trends; Temporal variance; Trophic interactions; Zackenberg

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LIMNOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PHENOLOGY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ZACKENBERG;

EID: 84956718422     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1501-2     Document Type: Article

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