Integrated Ecosystem Model for Alaska - Arctic LCC
Integrated Ecosystem Model for Alaska - Arctic LCC
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