Earth's sediment cycle during the Anthropocene

J Syvitski, JR Ángel, Y Saito, I Overeem… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The global sediment cycle is a fundamental feature of the Earth system, balancing
competing factors such as orogeny, physical–chemical erosion and human action. In this …

Climate change impacts on cultural heritage: A literature review

E Sesana, AS Gagnon, C Ciantelli… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change, as revealed by gradual changes in temperature, precipitation, atmospheric
moisture, and wind intensity, as well as sea level rise and changes in the occurrence of …

Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests

CM Duarte, JP Gattuso, K Hancke… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Macroalgal habitats are believed to be the most extensive and productive of all coastal
vegetated ecosystems. In stark contrast to the growing attention on their contribution to …

Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

AM Irrgang, M Bendixen, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coasts are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and
the loss of permafrost, sea ice and glaciers. Assessing the influence of anthropogenic …

Around one third of current Arctic Ocean primary production sustained by rivers and coastal erosion

J Terhaar, R Lauerwald, P Regnier, N Gruber… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Net primary production (NPP) is the foundation of the oceans' ecosystems and the fisheries
they support. In the Arctic Ocean, NPP is controlled by a complex interplay of light and …

Increase in Arctic coastal erosion and its sensitivity to warming in the twenty-first century

DM Nielsen, P Pieper, A Barkhordarian… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coastal erosion damages infrastructure, threatens coastal communities and releases
organic carbon from permafrost. However, the magnitude, timing and sensitivity of coastal …

Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review

JE Walsh, TJ Ballinger, ES Euskirchen, E Hanna… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The greatest impacts of climate change on ecosystems, wildlife and humans often arise from
extreme events rather than changes in climatic means. Northern high latitudes, including the …

Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

G Hugelius, J Strauss, S Zubrzycki, JW Harden… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
Soils and other unconsolidated deposits in the northern circumpolar permafrost region store
large amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC). This SOC is potentially vulnerable to …