Vegetation-Permafrost Relations within the Forest-Tundra Ecotone near Old Crow, Northern Yukon, Canada

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Roy-Léveillée, P., Burn, C. (Christopher R.), Mcdonald, I.D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Forest-tundra; Old Crow; Permafrost; Snow; Treeline; Vegetation; Canada; Old Crow Flats; The Flats; Yukon; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; taiga; Tundra
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/7813; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1805

Old Crow Flats is a 5600 km2 glaciolacustrine plain that straddles the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Yukon. Continuous taiga corridors occur in the entrenched river valleys, where annual mean ground temperatures (Tg) at the depth of zero annual amplitude at two locations were -3.1 and -4.0oC in...