Environmental Monitoring and Research in the Abisko Area — An Overview

Summary, in English

This article gives an overview of the studies on

the environment surrounding the Abisko Scientific

Research Station in Swedish Lapland. The long-term

monitoring of the Station on processes related to the climate,

and to the physical, biotic, and chemical environmental

conditions is particularly addressed. Some variables

are recorded since more than 100 years. The obtained data

in combination with results from short-term studies and

manipulation experiments are important to understand past

and future conditions of the ecosystems. This has practical

applications for the planning of tourism, transports, reindeer

herding, and for societal purposes.

• Author: Christer Jonasson; Mats Sonesson; Torben Christensen; Terry Callaghan
• Department/s: Biodiversity; Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science; MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 178-186
• Publication/Series: Ambio: a Journal of Human Environment
• Volume: 41
• Issue: Supplement 3
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-012-0301-6
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Ecology; Physical Geography
• Keywords: Monitoring; Environmental change; Climate change; Swedish sub-Arctic; Abisko
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0044-7447