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Integrated Ecosystem Model for Alaska - Arctic LCC

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Broader Impacts & Significance<br />

The <strong>Integrated</strong> <strong>Ecosystem</strong> <strong>Model</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Alaska</strong> will<br />

provide a decision support tool which will:<br />

• Improve our understanding of the potential<br />

response of ecosystems to climate change<br />

• Identify processes by which climate change will<br />

most likely affect species and habitats<br />

• Serve to in<strong>for</strong>m the structure and design of<br />

inventory and monitoring activities<br />

• Serve to broadly in<strong>for</strong>m societal issues that will be<br />

affected by climate change such as human health,<br />

agriculture, engineering and subsistence<br />

sustainability

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