Data from: Ground ice melt in the high Arctic leads to greater ecological heterogeneity

• Main Authors: Becker, Michael S., Davies, T. Jonathan, Pollard, Wayne H
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Fosheim Peninsula; Nunavut; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; polar desert; Thermokarst; wedge*
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-ji-0p5q; https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:91213

1. The polar desert biome of the Canadian high Arctic Archipelago is currently experiencing some of the greatest mean annual air temperature increases on the planet, threatening the stability of ecosystems residing above temperature-sensitive permafrost. 2. Ice wedges are the most widespread form of...