Abrupt thaw events: Local landscape degradations with large-scale impacts on Arctic ecosystems

Thaw slump events are local landscape degradations that are expanding with present-day warming in the Arctic. These local disturbances have broad scale impacts on soil and river ecosystems as well as on organic carbon storage, as explained by Maxime Thomas from the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouv...

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Main Author: Thomas, Maxime
Other Authors: UCL - SST/ELI/ELIE - Environmental Sciences
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/255162
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Summary:Thaw slump events are local landscape degradations that are expanding with present-day warming in the Arctic. These local disturbances have broad scale impacts on soil and river ecosystems as well as on organic carbon storage, as explained by Maxime Thomas from the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain, Belgium