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Frontiers in Understanding Climate Change and Polar Ecosystems Report of a Workshop (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 47-48

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... Issues of thresholds and tipping points in ecosystem connections, polar amplification, and ecosystem predictability, vulnerability, and resilience in the context of natural and human perturbations, were discussed. Frontiers questions were developed from these discussions that are considered globally significant, relatively unexplored, challenging, urgent, and at the forefront of an expanding field of knowledge.
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... The rapid pace of change and its global-scale impacts make polar ecosystems a fundamental concern for science and society.
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  • polar ecosystem
  • climate forcing
  • rapid pace
  • fundamental concern
  • polar amplification

  • ecosystem connections
  • ecosystem predictability
  • global climate
  • human perturbations
  • considered globally

  • globally significant
  • expanding field
  • frontiers questions
  • relatively unexplored


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