High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Data for Ecosystem Characterization

High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Data 

for Ecosystem Characterization

 

Michael A. Wulder, Ronald J. Hall,

 Nicholas C. Coops, Steven E. Franklin

 

Author Notes

BioScience, Volume 54, Issue 6, June 2004, Pages 511–521 

High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Data for Ecosystem Characterization

High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Data 

for Ecosystem Characterization

 

Michael A. Wulder, Ronald J. Hall,

 Nicholas C. Coops, Steven E. Franklin

 

Author Notes

BioScience, Volume 54, Issue 6, June 2004, Pages 511–521 

Dynamical evolution of ecosystems

Dynamical evolution of ecosystems

Sandro Azaele1 , Simone Pigolotti2

, Jayanth R. Banavar3 & Amos Maritan1

1 Dipartimento di Fisica ‘G. Galilei’, Universita` di Padova, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy. 

2 The Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. 

3 Department ofPhysics, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

Nature, Volume 444, Issue 7121, pp. 926-928 (2006)

Aconceptual framework for monitoring climate effects and feedback in arctic ecosystems

Aconceptual framework for monitoring climate effects and feedback in arctic ecosystems

Mads C. Forchhammer1,2, Morten Rasch3 & Søren Rysgaard4

1 Section for Climate Effects and System Modelling, Department of Arctic Environment, National Environmental Research Institute. 

2 Centre for Integrated Population Ecology www.CIPE.dk. 

3 Danish PolarCentre. 

4 Centre of Marine Ecology and Climate Effects, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.

   This paper presents a conceptual framework for implementing the long‐term ecosystem monitoring programme Nuuk Basic in low arctic Greenland. The overall purpose of Nuuk Basic is to collect long‐term data quantifying seasonal and inter‐annual variations and long‐term changes in the biological and geophysical properties of the terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystem compartments in relation to local, regional and global climate variability and change. The overall aim of Nuuk Basic is to establish a data platform which enables (i) a thorough description and analysis of climatic effects on the structure, function and feedback dynamics of a low arctic ecosystem, (ii) together with its exiting high arctic counterpart, Zackenberg Basic, a more complete spatial coverage of the general climate–ecosystems interactions across the Arctic, and (iii) an understanding of the interactions between human utilization of natural resources and climate effects. The successful implementation and continued operation of Nuuk Basic will be secured by the internationally unique operational expertise Denmark/Greenland has gained through ten years operation of Zackenberg Basic.