Рубрики:
SUMMER TEMPERATURE-VARIATIONS
MACKENZIE RIVER DRIFTWOOD
SEA-ICE
FUNGAL DIVERSITY
CLIMATE-CHANGE
BARENTS SEA
SVALBARD
ISLAND
WOOD
DETERIORATION
SUMMER TEMPERATURE-VARIATIONS
MACKENZIE RIVER DRIFTWOOD
SEA-ICE
FUNGAL DIVERSITY
CLIMATE-CHANGE
BARENTS SEA
SVALBARD
ISLAND
WOOD
DETERIORATION
Аннотация: Arctic environments, where surface temperatures increase and sea ice cover and permafrost depth decrease, are very sensitive to even slight climatic variations. Placing recent environmental change of the high-northern latitudes in a long-term context is, however, complicated by too short meteorological observations and too few proxy records. Driftwood may represent a unique cross-disciplinary archive at the interface of marine and terrestrial processes. Here, we introduce 1445 driftwood remains from coastal East Greenland and Svalbard. Macroscopy and microscopy were applied for wood anatomical classification; a multi-species subset was used for detecting fungi; and information on boreal vegetation patterns, circumpolar river systems, and ocean current dynamics was reviewed and evaluated. Four conifer (Pinus, Larix, Picea, and Abies) and three deciduous (Populus, Salix, and Betula) genera were differentiated. Species-specific identification also separated Pinus sylvestris and Pinus sibirica, which account for similar to 40% of all driftwood and predominantly originate from western and central Siberia. Larch and spruce from Siberia or North America represents similar to 26% and similar to 18% of all materials, respectively. Fungal colonization caused different levels of driftwood staining and/or decay. Our results demonstrate the importance of combining wood anatomical knowledge with insight on boreal forest composition for successfully tracing the origin of Arctic driftwood. To ultimately reconstruct spatiotemporal variations in ocean currents, and to better quantify postglacial uplift rates, we recommend consideration of dendrochronologically dated material from many more circumpolar sites. Citation: Hellmann, L., W. Tegel, O. Eggertsson, F. H. Schweingruber, R. Blanchette, A. Kirdyanov, H. Gartner, and U. Buntgen (2013), Tracing the origin of Arctic driftwood, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 118, 68-76, doi:10.1002/jgrg.20022.
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[Hellmann, Lena
Schweingruber, Fritz Hans
Gaertner, Holger
Buentgen, Ulf] Swiss Fed Res Inst, WSL, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
[Hellmann, Lena
Buentgen, Ulf] Oeschger Ctr Climate Change Res, Bern, Switzerland
[Tegel, Willy] Univ Freiburg, Inst Forest Growth IWW, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany
[Eggertsson, Olafur] Iceland Forest Serv, Reykjavik, Iceland
[Blanchette, Robert] Univ Minnesota, Dept Plant Pathol, St Paul, MN USA
[Kirdyanov, Alexander] VN Sukachev Inst Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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