Examining the spatial distribution of soil moisture and its relationship to vegetation and permafrost dynamics in a Subarctic permafrost peatland

• Main Author: Warren, Rebecca Kathleen
• Other Authors: Berg, Aaron
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Guelph 2015
• Subjects: hydrology; soil moisture; permafrost; peatlands; evapotranspiration; subarctic; Browning; Canada; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10214/9200

Landscape change is occurring rapidly in the permafrost peatlands of the Canadian Subarctic due to rising mean annual air temperatures. Manuscript 1 examines the statistical characteristics and environmental controls of near-surface soil moisture at the field scale. Soil moisture standard deviation...