Mobilization of organic carbon and nitrogen in a retrogressive thaw slump on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Western Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Ruttor, Saskia
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Beaufort Sea; Global warming; Herschel; Herschel Island; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/40213/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/40213/1/Masterarbeit_SaskiaRuttor.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.47348; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.47348.d001

Herschel Island, located in the southern Beaufort Sea, Western Canadian Arctic, shows a clear response to the global warming. Due to its ice-rich permafrost it is highly affected by environmental forcing and known for its high erosion rates and retrogressive thaw slump activity. Even though retrogre...