A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic

作者：V. Y. Ivanov, Peter S. Ungar, John P. Ziker, Svetlana Abdulmanova, Gerardo Celis, Andrew Dixon, Dorothée Ehrich, Ivan Fufachev, Olivier Gilg, Mary Heskel, Desheng Liu, Marc Macias‐Fauria, Valeriy Mazepa, Karl Mertens, Pavel Orekhov, Alexandria S. Peterson, Olga B. Pokrovskaya, Aleksey Y. Sheshukov, Aleksandr Sokolov, Natalia Sokolova, Marcus P. Spiegel, Matt Sponheimer, Florian Stammler, Tyeen Taylor, Alexandra Terekhina, Victor Valdayskikh, Alexander Volkovitskiy, Jingfeng Wang, Wenbo Zhou · 发表于：Earth s Future · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1029/2023ef004157 · 被引用次数：8 · 研究领域：Climate change and permafrost、Indigenous Studies and Ecology、Cryospheric studies and observations

Abstract Science, engineering, and society increasingly require integrative thinking about emerging problems in complex systems, a notion referred to as convergence science. Due to the concurrent pressures of two main stressors—rapid climate change and industrialization, Arctic research demands such a paradigm of scientific inquiry. This perspective represents a synthesis of a vision for its application in Arctic system studies, developed by a group of disciplinary experts consisting of social and earth system scientists, ecologists, and engineers. Our objective is to demonstrate how convergence research questions can be developed via a holistic view of system interactions that are then parsed into material links and concrete inquiries of disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature. We illustrate the application of the convergence science paradigm to several forms of Arctic stressors using the Yamal Peninsula of the Russian Arctic as a representative natural laboratory with a biogeographic gradient from the forest‐tundra ecotone to the high Arctic.