Mechanisms, pathways and patchiness of the Arctic ecosystem responses and adaptation to changing climate

The scope of the Academy of Finland ClimEco project is to principally improve modern knowledge of mechanisms, feedbacks and pathways of the Arctic ecosystems response and their adaptation to the Arctic warming and, thus, to advance scientific background and tools for projecting current and future changes in Arctic ecosystems and microclimates. Such projections will be done for selected sites in Subarctic Finland and North-West Siberia, where the main drivers for ecosystem change and adaptation are the Arctic warming and land-use/cover disturbances caused by human activities.
Specific objectives are:
(i) To integrate historical and newly obtained in-situ and remote-sensing data for demonstrating and quantifying parallel ongoing changes in climate and ecosystems over the territories addressed in the project: Northern Finland and North-Western Siberia.
(ii) To identify and specify by field observations and experiments in different ecosystems (mires, shrublands tundra and forest, permafrost and non-permafrost) concrete responses of Arctic ecosystems to climate warming and land-use disturbances at small scales.
(iii) To advance conventional concept and methods of calculation of Arctic PBLs and heat/moisture exchange between the atmosphere and selected Arctic ecosystems, towards better understanding and forecasting of local Arctic climate-biosphere systems.