Polygonal tundra geomorphological change in response to warming alters future CO2 and CH4 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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrow Peninsula; Barrow; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36823/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44586

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 in thermo...