Large herbivores as stabilizing ecosystem engineers in thawing terrestrial Arctic environments

• Main Authors: Windirsch, Torben, Grosse, Guido, Habeck, J. Otto, Ulrich, Mathias, Strauss, Jens
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Cherskiy; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53925/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.eb8a0dd6-bf7f-4177-b3e8-881b43c54b15

With an increasingly warm Arctic, new challenges arise as Arctic permafrost ground starts to thaw further. Thaw destabilizes the ground and makes soil-stored organic carbon available for microbial decomposition. To reduce thaw intensity, we examined the impact of large herbivorous animals on thaw de...