Monitoring and understanding decadal scale changes in hydrology, productivity and carbon balance in Arctic tundra ponds

• Main Author: Andresen, Christian Gerardo
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ScholarWorks@UTEP 2014
• Subjects: Climate Change|Environmental science; Arctic; Barrow Peninsula; Arctophila fulva; Barrow; Carex aquatilis; Climate change; permafrost; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.utep.edu/dissertations/AAI3682449

The Arctic is known for containing large stocks of soil organic carbon, which exists frozen in permafrost in a greenhouse inert state. With predicted future warming in these high northern latitudes, the mobilization of stored soil organic carbon and release to the atmosphere may increase and induce...