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| 01 Mar 2016
Thermo-erosion gullies boost the transition from wet to mesic tundra vegetation
Naïm Perreault
Département des sciences de l'environnement, Université du
Québec à Trois-Rivières,
Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A 5H7, Canada
Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
G1V 0A6, Canada
Esther Lévesque
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Département des sciences de l'environnement, Université du
Québec à Trois-Rivières,
Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A 5H7, Canada
Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
G1V 0A6, Canada
Daniel Fortier
Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
G1V 0A6, Canada
Département de géographie, Université de Montréal,
Montréal, QC, H2V 2B8, Canada
Laurent J. Lamarque
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Département des sciences de l'environnement, Université du
Québec à Trois-Rivières,
Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A 5H7, Canada
Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
G1V 0A6, Canada
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We investigated the impacts of climate change and thawing permafrost on vegetation dynamics in Bylot Island, Nunavut. The development of gullies has created new drainage systems within the wetlands, promoting the emergence of mesic plants at the expense of hydrophilic ones within 10 years after disturbance inception. The landscape transformation from wet to mesic plant communities can have substantial consequences on food availability for herbivores and methane emissions of Arctic ecosystems.
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