Rapid vegetation succession and coupled permafrost dynamics in arctic thaw ponds in the Siberian lowland tundra

• Main Author: Magnusson, MSc R.I. (Plant Ecology & Nature Conservation - Wageningen University & Research), Researcher
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Nature and landscape; thermokarst; tundra; arctic; siberia; thaw pond; vegetation succession; Arctic; Browning; Betula nana; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra; wedge*; Siberia
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-un-zneg; https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:156084

Thermokarst features, such as thaw ponds, are hotspots for methane emissions in warming lowland tundra. Presently we lack quantitative knowledge on the formation rates of formation of thaw ponds and subsequent vegetation succession, necessary to determine their net contribution to greenhouse gas emi...