Frontiers in Understanding Climate Change and Polar Ecosystems Report of a Workshop (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Although climate change is occurring on a global scale, ecological impacts are often specific, local, and vary from region to region. Because impacts in high latitude ecosystems are already evident and are expected to be even more pronounced in the future, polar regions offer novel opportunities to begin exploring interdisciplinary questions such as: How are marine and terrestrial species currently responding to the changing climate and can we explain and predict future changes and responses?
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The first frontier question concerns the need to identify the impacts of the rapidly disappearing cryosphere on polar ecosystems. Workshop participants noted that the continued loss of cryosphere will be a major driver of change in polar ecosystems and will play a role in amplification of climate change and its teleconnections with lower latitudes.
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To begin to address these questions, workshop participants discussed the need for a holistic, interdisciplinary systems approach to understanding polar ecosystem responses to climate change. As an outcome of the workshop, participants brainstormed methods and technologies (see Chapter 3)
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