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Ecological resilience of Arctic marine food webs to climate change

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  • Gary P. Griffith

    (Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre)

  • Haakon Hop

    (Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre
    UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

  • Mikko Vihtakari

    (Institute of Marine Research, Fram Centre)

  • Anette Wold

    (Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre)

  • Kjersti Kalhagen

    (Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre)

  • Geir Wing Gabrielsen

    (Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre
    University Centre in Svalbard
    University Centre in Svalbard)

Abstract

How real-world marine food webs absorb change, recover and adapt (that is, ecological resilience) to climate change remains problematic. Here we apply a novel approach to show how the complex changes in resilience of food webs can be understood with a small core set of self-organizing configurations that represent different simultaneously nested and multiple-species interactions. We identified a recent emergent pattern of an improving but possibly short-lived resilience of a highly observed Arctic marine food web (2004–2016), considered a harbinger of future Arctic change. The changes can be explained by continuing subsidiary inputs of Atlantic species that repair (self-organize) interactions within some configurations. Despite significant environmental perturbation, we found that the core ecological processes are maintained. We conclude that Arctic marine food webs can absorb and begin to adapt to ongoing climate change.

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  • Gary P. Griffith & Haakon Hop & Mikko Vihtakari & Anette Wold & Kjersti Kalhagen & Geir Wing Gabrielsen, 2019. "Ecological resilience of Arctic marine food webs to climate change," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 9(11), pages 868-872, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:9:y:2019:i:11:d:10.1038_s41558-019-0601-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0601-y
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    1. Zhi Zhang & Zhizhou Shi & Zefeng Yu & Konglin Zhou & Jing Lin & Jiangyue Wu & Jingli Mu, 2022. "Spatio-Temporal Variations of Zooplankton and Correlations with Environmental Parameters around Tiaowei Island, Fujian, China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(19), pages 1-14, October.
    2. James E. Overland, 2021. "Rare events in the Arctic," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 168(3), pages 1-13, October.

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