Tundra vegetation stability versus lake-basin variability on the Yukon Coastal Plain (NW Canada) during the past three centuries

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Wolter, Juliane, Lantuit, Hugues, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Stettner, Samuel, Fritz, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Short Lake; Yukon; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44732/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50981

Palaeoclimatic reconstructions of the northern Yukon show cooler conditions before AD 1850 followed by gradual warming, and 20th-century temperature measurements indicate decadal-scale temperature fluctuations. The impact of climate on regional vegetation and lake systems has seldom been observed on...