Expert elicitation of state shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems.

Saulnier-Talbot, Émilie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7193-0577; Duchesne, Éliane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2597-3442; Antoniades, Dermot ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6629-4839; Arseneault, Dominique ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3419-2480; Barnard, Christine; Berteaux, Dominique ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-5985; Bhiry, Najat ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6609-0235; Bouchard, Frédéric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9687-3356; Boudreau, Stéphane; Cazelles, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6619-9874; Comte, Jérôme ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-4290; Corbeil-Robitaille, Madeleine-Zoé ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8324-1381; Côté, Steeve D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4875-1917; Couture, Raoul-Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-3372; de Lafontaine, Guillaume ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6889-1733; Domine, Florent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6438-6879; Fauteux, Dominique ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5373-8701; Fortier, Daniel; Garneau, Michelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1956-9243; Gauthier, Gilles ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2624-3508; Gravel, Dominique ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4498-7076; Laurion, Isabelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8694-3330; Lavoie, Martin; Lecomte, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8473-5375; Legagneux, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6366-0554; Lévesque, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-6032; Naud, Marie-José ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5762-6286; Paquette, Michel; Payette, Serge; Pienitz, Reinhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3613-1673; Rautio, Milla ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2375-9082; Roy, Alexandre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1472-3619; Royer, Alain; Simard, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6174-0657; Vincent, Warwick F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9055-1938 et Bêty, Joël ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8775-6411 (2024). Expert elicitation of state shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems. Communications Earth & Environment , vol. 5 , nº 1. p. 624. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01791-z.

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Northern regions are warming faster than the rest of the globe. It is difficult to predict ecosystem responses to warming because the thermal sensitivity of their biophysical components varies. Here, we present an analysis of the authors’ expert judgment regarding the sensitivity of six ecosystem components – permafrost, peatlands, lakes, snowpack, vegetation, and endothermic vertebrates – across northern landscapes ranging from boreal to polar biomes. We identified 28 discontinuous component states across a 3700 km latitudinal gradient in northeastern North America and quantified sensitivity as the transition time from an initial to a contrasting state following a theoretical step change increase in mean annual air temperature of 5 °C. We infer that multiple interconnected state shifts are likely to occur within a narrow subarctic latitudinal band at timescales of 10 to more than 100 years, and response times decrease with latitude. Response times differ between components and across latitudes, which is likely to impair the integrity of ecosystems.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	climate-change ecology; environmental impact
Centre:	Centre Eau Terre Environnement
Date de dépôt:	12 nov. 2024 18:59
Dernière modification:	12 nov. 2024 18:59
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/16096

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