The impact of permafrost degradation on methane fluxes : a field study in Abisko

• Main Author: Dahlbom, Andreas
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap 2016
• Subjects: Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; methane; chamber technique; permafrost; Abisko; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Global warming
• Online Access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/8871444

All over the arctic and sub-arctic region global warming is affecting permafrost. When permafrost thaws, organic material becomes available for decomposition, hence an increase of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. In the northernmost of Sweden, on a mire close to Abisko, a snow manipulatio...