Ecological Modeling of the Supraglacial Ecosystem: A Process-based Perspective

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10370081" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10370081 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00052" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00052</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00052" target="_blank" >10.3389/feart.2017.00052</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecological Modeling of the Supraglacial Ecosystem: A Process-based Perspective

Original language description

Glacier and ice sheet surfaces are important microbe-dominated ecosystems that are changing rapidly due to climate change, with potentially significant impacts. A theoretical framework of the supraglacial (glacier surface) ecosystem is needed to enable its mathematical modeling, a necessary tool for understanding, quantifying and predicting present day and future ecosystem dynamics. Here, we review key biological processes occurring on glacier and ice sheet surfaces and present three frameworks for constructing process-based models of the surface ecosystem, using the largest supraglacial ecosystem on Earth-the Greenland ice sheet surface-as an important example. Themodels are based on organic carbon transformations, but vary in numerical complexity and in the level of detail of biological processes. This perspective is intended to guide future supraglacial ecosystem model development, field data collection for parameterization and validation purposes, and encourage inter-disciplinary collaboration between modelers and experimentalists.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Earth Science [online]

ISSN

2296-6463

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

June

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000419338800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85027704149