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- Title
Microbial ecosystem responses to rapid climate change in the Arctic.
- Authors
Vincent, Warwick F.
- Abstract
In this article, the author discusses the impact of the climate change on the ecology of Arctic microbial communities and processes. He focuses on the specific impact of declining Arctic sea ice and the microbes that live in the habitat. He discusses how other Arctic habitats, including permafrost, are predicted to react to increasing global temperatures. He contends that global warming causes a general attrition of the cryoshere, the ensemble of ice-containing environments on Earth.
- Subjects
ARCTIC regions; CLIMATE change; MICROBIAL ecology; GLOBAL warming; HABITATS; SEA ice
- Publication
ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology, 2010, Vol 4, Issue 9, p1087
- ISSN
1751-7362
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1038/ismej.2010.108