The impacts of High Arctic permafrost disturbances on vegetation and carbon flux dynamics

• Main Author: Cassidy, Alison Elizabeth
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Fosheim Peninsula; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59332

Changing climate and disturbance regimes can have widespread ecosystem impacts, especially in the Arctic. Vegetation recovery and carbon flux dynamics were examined to determine the impacts of thermokarst disturbance on patterns and processes in High Arctic tundra ecosystems. Ecosystem responses to...