Degrading palsa mires in northern Europe : changing vegetation in an altering climate and its potential impact on greenhouse gas fluxes

• Main Author: Karlgård, Julia
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap 2008
• Subjects: geography; physical geography; palsa mires; northern Europe; greenhouse gas fluxes; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Norway; Stordalen; Climate change; Global warming; Ice; Northern Sweden; palsa; palsas; permafrost; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1890250

The on-going global warming is projected to have large impacts on the arctic and subarctic environment. Especially vulnerable are ecosystems with narrow climatic envelopes and with small possibilities of adaptation. An example of this is the palsa mires, subarctic mire complexes with patches of perm...