Increasing Arctic Tundra Flooding Threatens Wildlife Habitat and Survival: Impacts on the Critically Endangered Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus)

Climate change is causing Arctic temperatures to increase at least twice as fast as the planet on average. Temperature and precipitation are predicted to continue increasing, such that flooding might become more prevalent in the new Arctic. Increased flooding frequency and extreme flooding events ma...

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Main Authors: Paul J. Haverkamp, Inga Bysykatova-Harmey, Nikolai Germogenov, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Conservation Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2022.799998/full