Future emergence of new ecosystems caused by glacial retreat
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- Jean‐Baptiste Bosson · Matthias Huss · Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié · Jean‐Christophe Clément · Guillaume Costes · Mauro Fischer · Jérôme Poulenard · Florent Arthaud
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · ETH Zurich · Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes · Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Laboratoire Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne · Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology · Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research · Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research · University of Bern · University of Fribourg · Université Savoie Mont Blanc
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Abstract Glacier shrinking and the development of postglacial ecosystems related to anthropogenic climate change is one of the fastest ongoing ecosystem shifts, with paramount ecological and societal cascading consequences globally (Huss et al., 2017; Milner et al., 2017; Cauvy and Dangles, 2019; IPCC, 2021). Yet, no complete spatial analysis exists to quantify or anticipate this major changeover (Ficetola et al., 2021; Zimmer et al., 2022). Here we model glacier responses to climate projections until 2100 and subglacial terrain to explore the ecological trajectory of all glaciated areas, outside the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets. Depending on climate change magnitude, glaciers could lose less than one quarter to half of their area by 2100. Mainly composed of terrestrial, then marine and freshwater areas, deglaciated areas could range from the equivalent surface of Nepal to Finland. Ecological conditions in deglaciated areas will remain extreme in some regions, offering refuges for cold-adapted species, but become mild in others, favouring biogeochemical processes, primary productivity and generalist species. This unprecedented travel into the future of cold regions shows that glaciers and postglacial ecosystems have key roles to play to face climate change, biodiversity loss and freshwater scarcity. Less than a third of these vulnerable common goods, barely considered in nature conservation policies (IPBES, 2019), are located within protected areas. We therefore call to urgently enhance both climate change mitigation and the in-situ protection of these key ecosystems to secure their existence, functioning and values.
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Jean‐Baptiste Bosson; Matthias Huss; Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié; Jean‐Christophe Clément; Guillaume Costes; Mauro Fischer; Jérôme Poulenard; Florent Arthaud. Future emergence of new ecosystems caused by glacial retreat. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06302-2
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Laboratoire Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
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