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Adaptation of Willows in River Lowlands to Flooding under Arctic Amplification: Evidence from Nitrogen Content and Stable Isotope Dynamics

from Wetlands

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Alien plants, animals, fungi and algae in Norway: an inventory of neobiota

from Biological Invasions

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Antarctic blackfin icefish genome reveals adaptations to extreme environments

from Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Antarctic Peninsula warm winters influenced by Tasman Sea temperatures

from Nature Communications

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Assessing the Contributions of Atmospheric/Meteoric Water and Sea Ice Meltwater and Their Influences on Geochemical Properties in Estuaries of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

from Estuaries and Coasts

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Bacterial community in saline farmland soil on the Tibetan plateau: responding to salinization while resisting extreme environments

from BMC Microbiology

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Bioluminescence potential modeling during polar night in the Arctic: impact of advection versus local sources

from Ocean Dynamics

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Chemical weathering in Antarctica: an example of igneous rock particles in Big Lachman Lake sediments, James Ross Island

from Environmental Earth Sciences

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Climate change favours large seasonal loss of Arctic ozone

from Nature Communications

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Climate warming may affect the optimal timing of reproduction for migratory geese differently in the low and high Arctic

from Oecologia

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Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities

from Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Continuous moulting by Antarctic krill drives major pulses of carbon export in the north Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean

from Nature Communications

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Development and characterization of thirteen novel microsatellite markers for use in Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus), with cross-amplification in Pacific sleeper sharks (Somniosus pacificus)

from BMC Research Notes

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Drivers and consequences of apex predator diet composition in the Canadian Beaufort Sea

from Oecologia

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Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat

from Communications Earth & Environment

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Ecological Networks in the Scotia Sea: Structural Changes Across Latitude and Depth

from Ecosystems

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Forecasting extreme stratospheric polar vortex events

from Nature Communications

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Geochemistry of Antarctic periglacial soils from Harmony Point, Nelson Island

from Environmental Earth Sciences

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High Arctic Vegetation Change Mediated by Hydrological Conditions

from Ecosystems

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High diversity of root associated fungi in both alpine and arctic Dryas octopetala

from BMC Plant Biology

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Historical contingency shapes adaptive radiation in Antarctic fishes

from Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Labrador Sea freshening linked to Beaufort Gyre freshwater release

from Nature Communications

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Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut

from Sustainability Science

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Model improvement and future projection of permafrost processes in a global land surface model

from Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

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Multiple Ecosystem Effects of Extreme Weather Events in the Arctic

from Ecosystems

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New genetic evidences for distinct populations of the common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in the Southern Hemisphere

from Polar Biology

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One approach for downscaling climate change data towards regional implications in climate change scenarios: the case for Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

from SN Applied Sciences

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Opening of the Fram Strait led to the establishment of a modern-like three-layer stratification in the Arctic Ocean during the Miocene

from arktos

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Orbital- and millennial-scale Antarctic Circumpolar Current variability in Drake Passage over the past 140,000 years

from Nature Communications

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Our footprint on Antarctica competes with nature for rare ice-free land

from Nature Sustainability

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Ozone depletion, ultraviolet radiation, climate change and prospects for a sustainable future

from Nature Sustainability

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Patchy field sampling biases understanding of climate change impacts across the Arctic

from Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Permafrost is warming at a global scale

from Nature Communications

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Planktonic microbial eukaryotes in polar surface waters: recent advances in high-throughput sequencing

from Marine Life Science & Technology

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Plant extinction excels plant speciation in the Anthropocene

from BMC Plant Biology

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Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink

from Nature Communications

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SiFBA5, a cold-responsive factor from Saussurea involucrata promotes cold resilience and biomass increase in transgenic tomato plants under cold stress

from BMC Plant Biology

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Spatial and temporal dynamics of Antarctic shallow soft-bottom benthic communities: ecological drivers under climate change

from BMC Ecology

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Spatiotemporally variable snow properties drive habitat use of an Arctic mesopredator

from Oecologia

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Structure and function of the Arctic and Antarctic marine microbiota as revealed by metagenomics

from Microbiome

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Subglacial erosion has the potential to sustain microbial processes in Subglacial Lake Whillans, Antarctica

from Communications Earth & Environment

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The influence of Antarctic ice loss on polar motion: an assessment based on GRACE and multi-mission satellite altimetry

from Earth, Planets and Space

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Unsupervised automatic classification of all-sky auroral images using deep clustering technology

from Earth Science Informatics

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Using next generation sequencing of alpine plants to improve fecal metabarcoding diet analysis for Dall’s sheep

from BMC Research Notes

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Warming and Wrack Supply Will Accelerate CO2 Emission and Nutrients Release on Antarctic Sedimentary Shores: A Case Study on a Volcanic Island

from Ecosystems

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Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

from Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Lessons on COVID-19 from Indigenous and remote communities of the Arctic

from Nature Medicine

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Arctic change - featured articles from Nature Climate Change


Impact of 1, 2 and 4 °C of global warming on ship navigation in the Canadian Arctic

by Lawrence R. Mudryk, Jackie Dawson, Stephen E. L. Howell, Chris Derksen, Thomas A. Zagon & Mike Brady 


Light and energetics at seasonal extremes limit poleward range shifts

by Gabriella Ljungström, Tom J. Langbehn & Christian Jørgensen 

Coldest Canadian Arctic communities face greatest reductions in shorefast sea ice

by Sarah W. Cooley, Jonathan C. Ryan, Laurence C. Smith, Chris Horvat, Brodie Pearson, Brigt Dale & Amanda H. Lynch 

Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon

by Yang Chen, David M. Romps, Jacob T. Seeley, Sander Veraverbeke, William J. Riley, Zelalem A. Mekonnen & James T. Randerson 

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