Polygonal tundra geomorphological change in response to warming alters future CO 2 and CH 4 flux on the Barrow Peninsula

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Lara, Mark J., McGuire, A. David, Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Tweedie, Craig E., Hinkel, Kenneth M., Skurikhin, Alexei N., Romanovsky, Vladimir E., Grosse, Guido, Bolton, W. Robert, Genet, Helene
• Other Authors: Office of Science, U.S. Geological Survey, National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrow Peninsula; Barrow; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12757; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fgcb.12757; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.12757; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/gcb.12757; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111%2Fgcb.12757

Abstract The landscape of the Barrow Peninsula in northern Alaska is thought to have formed over centuries to millennia, and is now dominated by ice‐wedge polygonal tundra that spans drained thaw‐lake basins and interstitial tundra. In nearby tundra regions, studies have identified a rapid increase...