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Anatomy of a closing window: Vulnerability to changing seasonality in Interior Alaska
Authors:Shannon M McNeeley  Martha D Shulski
Institution:a University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Department of Anthropology, 310 Eielson Building, PO Box 757720, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7720, United States
b Alaska Climate Research Center, International Arctic Research Ctr, Akasofu Building, Rm 336, 903 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
c National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO 80301, United States
Abstract:Alaska is among the fastest warming places on Earth, and the Interior region is warming the most statewide. Significant regional-scale ecosystem services disruptions are affecting Alaska Natives’ subsistence hunting and harvest success. The well-being of rural native communities is still highly dependent on access and ability to harvest wild foods such as salmon and moose (Alces alces gigas) among many others. Over the last decade communities in the Koyukuk-Middle Yukon (KMY) region of Interior Alaska report an inability to satisfy their needs for harvesting moose before the hunting season closes, citing warmer falls, changing precipitation and water levels, and the regulatory framework as primary causes. Through the integration of ethnographic methods to record indigenous observations and understanding of climate (IC) with analysis of meteorological data, we provide a comprehensive picture of vulnerability to recent warming trends in the Koyukuk-Middle Yukon region of Interior Alaska, one that captures more than statistical analysis of “norms” can provide. We will demonstrate how low exposure resulting in a small shift in seasonality has truly socially significant effects to people “on the ground” when community sensitivity is high because of the convergence of multiple social-ecological stressors. In this case, a seemingly small climatic exposure when combined with high social-ecological system sensitivity results in vulnerability to this climate change-related seasonality shift because of: (a) the effects on moose and the social-ecological dynamics of the system, and (b) the importance of this time of the year to meeting annual subsistence needs.
Keywords:Climate change  Vulnerability  Sensitivity  Adaptation  Multiple stressors  Indigenous observations and understanding of climate
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