Chemical, and Biological Effects of Crude Oil Spills Years on a Black Spruce Forest, Interior Alaska

• Main Authors: Charles M, Collins Charles, H. Racine, Marianne E. Walsh
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: Noire; Arctic; Linaigrette de Scheuchzer; permafrost; taiga; Alaska; Cotton-grass; linaigrette
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.487.8422; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic47-2-164.pdf

ABSTRACT. The effects of two large experimental crude oil spills conducted in the winter and summer of 1976 in a permafrost-underlain black spruce forest of interior Alaska were assessed 15 years after the spills. Effects on permafrost, as determined from measurements of active layer thaw depths and...