Arctic Peatlands

Ecology of peatland testate amoebae in the Alaskan continuous permafrost zone

“…Permafrost temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere have increased by as much as 2°C since 1850, with the continuous permafrost zone warming most rapidly (Vaughan et al, 2013). Peatlands in permafrost areas are especially vulnerable to rapid change and anthropogenic warming (Minayeva et al, 2016) and there is evidence that they are thawing at an accelerating rate (Payette et al, 2004).…”

Invited review: climate change impacts in polar regions: lessons from Antarctic moss bank archives

“…High latitude regions are experiencing particularly rapid climatic changes, and bryophytes, specifically mosses, are the dominant plants in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Wetlands cover 70% of the Arctic, largely made up of Sphagnum dominated peatlands that are shaped by freeze‐thaw processes and may be minerotrophic fens or ombrotrophic bogs (Minayeva & Sirin, ). In the Antarctic, over one hundred species of moss have been identified (Ochyra et al ., ), with two native vascular plant species.…”

Event-based approach in a teacher’s work: an open educational technology “Event-resource mapping”

“…The choice of a method or tool that allows to give a "form" of dynamic reality, to help the perception of a complex social and cultural environment is essential. Such a tool is "mapping," which us understood as "a term that does not carry any mandatory requirements for mapping the map" [12]. At the same time, the map implies certain connotations of processuality that are "closer to the characteristics of mental research activity, rather than to formal operations of processing initial data."…”

“…According to I. Minaeva, "The transition from a geographical map to a conceptual one and mapping can be perceived as a kind of marker in changing the perception of the world. In this transition one can catch one of the "symptoms" of the paradigm shift: when the paradigm of modernism is replaced by the paradigm of postmodernism" [12].…”

“…Issues of "eventfulness" in education are considered in works of both Russian and foreign researchers (Cheredilina, 2013; Kolokolnikova, 2014;Demakova, 2016;Schmid, 2003;Hühn, 2009;Richards, 2014;Hydén, 2017; [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]). The process of mapping in education has also attracted the attention of established researchers in Russia and abroad (McMahon, 2016;Kovalev, 2014;Minaeva, 2014;Polivanova, 2015;Terov, Gracheva, 2016; Burns, Freeman, Edwards, 2016; Huynh, Appell, Stetkiewicz, 2014 [11][12][13][14][15][16]). The open educational technology "Event-resource mapping" allows one to see the phenomenon called an "event" and the mapping process within the framework of one of the academic disciplines in the interrelation of the example of a pedagogical university.…”