Northwestern Arctic Alaska surface water area vector files, Kotzebue study area, 2002-2019

• Main Authors: Benjamin Jones, Kenneth Tape, Jason Clark, Ingmar Nitze, Guido Grosse, Jeff Disbrow
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center
• Subjects: surface water; arctic lakes; beavers; thermokarst; Arctic; Baldwin; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A22V2C974

Arctic landscapes are in a state of transition due to changes in climate occurring during both the summer and winter seasons. Scattered observations indicate that beavers (Castor canadensis) have moved from the forest into tundra areas during the last 20 years, likely in response to broader physical...