Isotopic compositions of ground ice in near-surface permafrost in relation to vegetation and microtopography at the Taiga-Tundra boundary in the Indigirka River lowlands, northeastern Siberia.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Shinya Takano, Atsuko Sugimoto, Shunsuke Tei, Maochang Liang, Ryo Shingubara, Tomoki Morozumi, Trofim C Maximov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Arctic; Indigirka; Ice; permafrost; taiga; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223720; https://doaj.org/article/e2d95528aec742f78a74c218175fbe11

The warming trend in the Arctic region is expected to cause drastic changes including permafrost degradation and vegetation shifts. We investigated the spatial distribution of ice content and stable isotopic compositions of water in near-surface permafrost down to a depth of 1 m in the Indigirka Riv...