Benjamin M. Jones, Christopher D. Arp, Matthew S. Whitman, Debora Nigro, Ingmar Nitze, John Beaver, Anne Gadeke, Callie Zuck, Anna Liljedahl, Ronald Daanen, Eric Torvinen, Stacey Fritz, Guido Grosse
- Lakes are dominant and diverse landscape features in the Arctic, but conventional land cover classification schemes typically map them as a single uniform class. Here, we present a detailed lake-centric geospatial database for an Arctic watershed in northern Alaska. We developed a GIS dataset consisting of 4362 lakes that provides information on lake morphometry, hydrologic connectivity, surface area dynamics, surrounding terrestrial ecotypes, and other important conditions describing Arctic lakes. Analyzing the geospatial database relative to fish and bird survey data shows relations to lake depth and hydrologic connectivity, which are being used to guide research and aid in the management of aquatic resources in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Further development of similar geospatial databases is needed to better understand and plan for the impacts of ongoing climate and land-use changes occurring across lake-rich landscapes in the Arctic.
MetadatenAuthor details: | Benjamin M. JonesORCiD, Christopher D. ArpORCiD, Matthew S. Whitman, Debora Nigro, Ingmar NitzeORCiDGND, John Beaver, Anne GadekeORCiD, Callie Zuck, Anna LiljedahlORCiD, Ronald Daanen, Eric Torvinen, Stacey Fritz, Guido GrosseORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-0915-9 |
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ISSN: | 0044-7447 |
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ISSN: | 1654-7209 |
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Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28343340 |
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Title of parent work (English): | AMBIO |
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Publisher: | Springer |
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Place of publishing: | Dordrecht |
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Publication type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Date of first publication: | 2017/03/25 |
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Publication year: | 2017 |
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Release date: | 2021/10/13 |
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Tag: | Arctic; Climate Change; GIS; Lakes; Land-use change; Watershed |
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Volume: | 46 |
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Number of pages: | 18 |
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First page: | 769 |
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Last Page: | 786 |
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Funding institution: | Bureau of Land Management; Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative; US Geological Survey Land Change Science and Land Remote Sensing programs; European Research Council [ERC-338335]; National Science Foundation [ARC-1107481, ARC-1417300] |
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Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geowissenschaften |
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DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften |
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Peer review: | Referiert |
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Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
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License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
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