Glacier decay boosts the formation of new Arctic coastal environments—Perspectives from Svalbard
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.4695" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.4695</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4695" target="_blank" >10.1002/ldr.4695</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Glacier decay boosts the formation of new Arctic coastal environments—Perspectives from Svalbard
Original language description
The consequences of accelerating climatic warming on Arctic landscape evolution are far-reaching. In Svalbard, glaciers are rapidly retreating after the Little Ice Age, which leads to exposing new coastal landscapes from marine-terminating glaciers. Precise quantification of these changes was limited until the complete dataset of Svalbard glacier outlines from 1930's was made available. Here, we analyse the new Svalbard glacier change inventory data and demonstrate that glacier retreat led to a major shift from marine-terminating towards land-based glaciers in the last century. This retreat also led to the formation of 922.9 km of new coastline since 1930's creating pristine landscapes governed by paraglacial processes and sediment-rich nearshore fjord environments. Recent palaeogeographical reconstructions suggest that such a mode of coastal evolution was dominant over the extended periods of the Holocene. Transitions from marine-terminating to land-based glaciers have significant implications for fjord circulation, biological production, the state of marine ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles between land and seas and the CO2 budget in coastal waters.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Land Degradation & Development
ISSN
1085-3278
e-ISSN
1099-145X
Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
3467-3474
UT code for WoS article
000956485800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85150994825