Journal
AMBIO
Volume 50, Issue 11, Pages 2104-2127Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01626-7
Keywords
Biodiversity biogeochemistry; Ecosystem services; Environmental change; Siberia; Societies
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Funding
- Ministry of Education and Science of Russia [RF-2296.61321X0043, 075-15-2021-672]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [18-05-60264, 121031300158-9]
- Russian Scientific Foundation [RSF 20-67-46018]
- TSU Competitiveness Improvement Programme
- EU [871120]
- TSU
- Russian Science Foundation [20-67-46018] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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The climate in Siberia is changing rapidly, with impacts on permafrost, glaciers, flooding, biodiversity, and forests. Public perceptions of climate change may limit local mitigation and adaptation measures, but Siberia also has the potential to amplify or suppress climate change impacts through land surface feedbacks.
A recent multidisciplinary compilation of studies on changes in the Siberian environment details how climate is changing faster than most places on Earth with exceptional warming in the north and increased aridity in the south. Impacts of these changes are rapid permafrost thaw and melt of glaciers, increased flooding, extreme weather events leading to sudden changes in biodiversity, increased forest fires, more insect pest outbreaks, and increased emissions of CO2 and methane. These trends interact with sociological changes leading to land-use change, globalisation of diets, impaired health of Arctic Peoples, and challenges for transport. Local mitigation and adaptation measures are likely to be limited by a range of public perceptions of climate change that vary according to personal background. However, Siberia has the possibility through land surface feedbacks to amplify or suppress climate change impacts at potentially global levels. Based on the diverse studies presented in this Ambio Special Issue, we suggest ways forward for more sustainable environmental research and management.
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