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    The missing pieces for better future predictions in subarctic ecosystems: A Torneträsk case study

    Arctic and subarctic ecosystems are experiencing substantial changes in hydrology, vegetation, permafrost conditions, and carbon cycling, in response to climatic change and other anthropogenic drivers, and the...

    Didac Pascual, Jonas Åkerman, Marina Becher, Terry V. Callaghan in Ambio (2021)

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    Past and Present Permafrost Temperatures in the Abisko Area: Redrilling of Boreholes

    Monitoring of permafrost has been ongoing since 1978 in the Abisko area, northernmost Sweden, when measurements of active layer thickness started. In 1980, boreholes were drilled in three mires in the area to ...

    Margareta Johansson, Jonas Åkerman, Frida Keuper, Torben R. Christensen in AMBIO (2011)

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    Multi-Decadal Changes in Tundra Environments and Ecosystems: Synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF)

    Understanding the responses of tundra systems to global change has global implications. Most tundra regions lack sustained environmental monitoring and one of the only ways to document multi-decadal change is ...

    Terry V. Callaghan, Craig E. Tweedie, Jonas Åkerman, Christopher Andrews in AMBIO (2011)

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    Communication and indexical reference

    In the debate over what determines the reference of an indexical expression on a given occasion of use, we can distinguish between two generic positions. According to the first, the reference is determined by int...

    Jonas Åkerman in Philosophical Studies (2010)

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    Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism

    Contextualism concerning vagueness (hereafter ‘CV’) is a popular response to the puzzle of vagueness.1 The purpose of this chapter is to highlight some of the most basic components of CV, and to show that it is c...

    Jonas Åkerman, Patrick Greenough in New Waves in Philosophy of Language (2010)

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    A plea for pragmatics

    Let intentionalism be the view that what proposition is expressed in context by a sentence containing indexicals depends on the speaker’s intentions. It has recently been argued that intentionalism makes communic...

    Jonas Åkerman in Synthese (2009)