Articles | Volume 15, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5287-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5287-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Reviews and syntheses
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31 Aug 2018
Reviews and syntheses |
| 31 Aug 2018
Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions
Department of Geography, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA
Benjamin W. Abbott
Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT 84602, USA
Daan Blok
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund
University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Thomas A. Douglas
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Fort
Wainwright, Alaska 99703, USA
Howard E. Epstein
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Bruce C. Forbes
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, 96101, Rovaniemi, Finland
Benjamin M. Jones
Institute of Northern Engineering, Water & Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Alexander L. Kholodov
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks,
AK,
99775 USA
Heather Kropp
Department of Geography, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA
Avni Malhotra
Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 37831-6301, USA
Steven D. Mamet
Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
S7N 5A8, Canada
Isla H. Myers-Smith
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Susan M. Natali
Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
Jonathan A. O'Donnell
Arctic Network, National Park Service, Anchorage, AK 99501, USA
Gareth K. Phoenix
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield,
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
Adrian V. Rocha
Department of Biological Sciences and the Environmental Change
Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame 46556, USA
Oliver Sonnentag
Département de géographie, Université de Montréal,
Montréal, H2V 2B8, Canada
Ken D. Tape
Institute of Northern Engineering, Water & Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Donald A. Walker
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
99775, USA
Data sets
RUI: Collaborative Research: Fire regime influences on carbon dynamics of Siberian boreal forests M. Loranty and H. D. Alexander https://doi.org/10.18739/A2CD3V
Short summary
Vegetation and soils strongly influence ground temperature in permafrost ecosystems across the Arctic and sub-Arctic. These effects will cause differences rates of permafrost thaw related to the distribution of tundra and boreal forests. As the distribution of forests and tundra change, the effects of climate change on permafrost will also change. We review the ecosystem processes that will influence permafrost thaw and outline how they will feed back to climate warming.
Vegetation and soils strongly influence ground temperature in permafrost ecosystems across the...
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