Co-producing knowledge: the Integrated Ecosystem Model for resource management in Arctic Alaska

Eugénie S. Euskirchen; Kristin Timm; Amy L. Breen; Stephen Gray; T. Scott Rupp; Philip Martin; Joel H. Reynolds; Amanda Sesser; Karen Murphy; Jeremy S. Littell; Alec Bennett; W. Robert Bolton; Tobey Carman; Hélène Genet; Brad Griffith; Tom Kurkowski; Mark J. Lara; Sergei Marchenko; Dmitry Nicolsky; Santosh Panda; Vladimir Romanovsky; Ruth Rutter; Colin L. Tucker; A. David McGuire

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Co-producing knowledge: the Integrated Ecosystem Model for resource management in Arctic Alaska

Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Kristin Timm, Amy L. Breen, Stephen Gray, T. Scott Rupp, Philip Martin, Joel H. Reynolds, Amanda Sesser, Karen Murphy, Jeremy S. Littell, Alec Bennett, W. Robert Bolton, Tobey Carman, Hélène Genet, Brad Griffith, Tom Kurkowski, Mark J. Lara, Sergei Marchenko, Dmitry Nicolsky, Santosh PandaVladimir Romanovsky, Ruth Rutter, Colin L. Tucker, A. David McGuire

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Abstract

Assessments of climate-change effects on ecosystem processes and services in high-latitude regions are hindered by a lack of decision-support tools capable of forecasting possible future landscapes. We describe a collaborative effort to develop and apply the Integrated Ecosystem Model (IEM) for Alaska and northwestern Canada to explore how climate change influences interactions among disturbance regimes, permafrost integrity, hydrology, and vegetation, and how these dynamics in turn influence resource management decisions. This process emphasizes co-production of knowledge among decision makers, scientists, major funders, partners, and stakeholders. We highlight research findings based on IEM applications in Arctic Alaska, as well as successes and challenges of the co-production process. The overall framework and lessons from our work with the IEM are relevant to other collaborative efforts outside the Arctic that aim to develop a decision-support tool or an undertaking of equivalent scope.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	447-455
Number of pages	9
Journal	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Volume	18
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2176
State	Published - Oct 1 2020

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This research was primarily funded by the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center through Grant/Cooperative Agreement G10AC00588 from the US Geological Survey (USGS), the Alaska EPSCoR National Science Foundation (NSF) award #OIA-1208927, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on behalf of the Arctic, Northwest Boreal, and Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs). Funding was also provided by the USGS Alaska LandCarbon Project, the NSF through the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program, the US Department of Defense's Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (Project RC-2110), and the US Department of Energy through the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE-Arctic). We thank C Rosner and A Floyd for assistance with figure preparation, and members of the Steering Committees for the Arctic, Northwest Boreal, and Western Alaska LCCs. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the USFWS. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government. Data are available online at: http://ckan.snap.uaf.edu/dataset, www.scien?cebase.gov/catal?og/item/59a40?544e4?b077f?00567?3247, and https?://cida.usgs.gov/thred?ds/catal?og/AIEM_perma?frost/?catal?og.html.

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Euskirchen, E. S., Timm, K., Breen, A. L., Gray, S., Rupp, T. S., Martin, P., Reynolds, J. H., Sesser, A., Murphy, K., Littell, J. S., Bennett, A., Bolton, W. R., Carman, T., Genet, H., Griffith, B., Kurkowski, T., Lara, M. J., Marchenko, S., Nicolsky, D., ... McGuire, A. D. (2020). Co-producing knowledge: the Integrated Ecosystem Model for resource management in Arctic Alaska. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18(8), 447-455. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2176

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