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Vegetation influence and environmental controls on greenhouse gas fluxes from a drained thermokarst lake in the western Canadian Arctic
June Skeeter
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Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, V6T1Z2, Canada
Andreas Christen
Environmental Meteorology, Faculty of Environment and Natural
Resources, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Andrée-Anne Laforce
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton
University, Ottawa, K1S5B6, Canada
Elyn Humphreys
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton
University, Ottawa, K1S5B6, Canada
Greg Henry
Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, V6T1Z2, Canada
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This study investigates carbon fluxes at Illisarvik, an artificial drained thermokarst lake basin (DTLB) in Canada's Northwest Territories. This is the first carbon balance study in a DTLB outside of Alaska. We used neural networks to identify the factors controlling fluxes and to model the effects of the controlling factors. We discuss the role of vegetation heterogeneity in fluxes, especially of methane, and we show how the carbon fluxes differ from Alaskan DTLBs.
This study investigates carbon fluxes at Illisarvik, an artificial drained thermokarst lake...
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