Published

Credit: MCM LTER

Credit: MCM LTER

During a decadal cooling period, productivity and hydrological connectivity synchronously decreased among terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. As summer air temperatures and solar radiation stabilized in the following decade, the ecosystem moved back toward pre-cooling period conditions but in an asynchronous manner. This was due in part to the fact that the end of the cooling period was punctuated by the highest glacial melt summer on record.

Learn more

  1. Gooseff, MN et al. 2017. Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0253-0
  2. Nielsen, et al. 2012. The ecology of pulse events: insights from an extreme climatic event in a polar desert ecosystem. Ecosphere. doi: 10.1890/ES11-00325.1
  3. Šabacká, et al. 2012. Aeolian flux of biotic and abiotic material in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Geomorph. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.009
  4. Michaud, et al. 2012. Cyanobacterial diversity across landscape units in a polar desert: Taylor Valley, Antarctica. FEMS Microbio. Ecol. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01297.x

Contact

Michael Gooseff
michael.gooseff@colorado.edu

Posted:  July 10, 2020