Modelling the effects of climate change and disturbance on permafrost stability in northern organic soils

• Main Authors: Treat, C C, Wisser, Dominik, Marchenko, S, Frolking, Steve
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2013
• Subjects: Alaska; arctic fen; black spruce forest; Daring Lake; global warming; peatlands; Arctic; Active layer thickness; Climate change; Global warming; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/earthsci_facpub/269; https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1268&context=earthsci_facpub

Boreal and arctic regions are predicted to warm faster and more strongly than temperate latitudes. Peatlands in these regions contain large stocks of soil carbon in frozen soil and these may effect a strong positive feedback on climate change. We modelled the predicted effects of climate change and...