Data from: Sixty-year legacy of human impacts on a high Arctic ecosystem ...

• Main Authors: Becker, Michael S., Pollard, Wayne H.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: ground temperature; Permafrost; polar desert; thermokarst; Infrastructure; ice wedges; Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Nunavut; Pollard; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; wedge*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t0k5k; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.t0k5k

The high Arctic is the world's fasting warming biome, allowing access to sections of previously inaccessible land for resource extraction. Starting in 2011, exploration of one of the Earth's largest undeveloped coal seams was initiated in a relatively pristine, polar desert environment in...