Karaktäristiken hos strukturmarken på olika altitud i Abiskoområdet – en koppling till klimat och komplex systemteori

• Main Author: Scharin, Gunnar
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen 2014
• Subjects: Abisko; patterned ground; permafrost; non-sorted circles; altitude; self-generation; Northern Sweden; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225355

Subarctic and alpine areas are sensitive to climatic change when they lie at the margin of permafrost occurrence. Patterned ground in such areas is generated from an interplay among different mechanisms such as temperature, hydrology, soil texture, snow cower and vegetation. The aim of this study is...