NEAR-SURFACE PERMAFROST GROUND ICE CHARACTERISTICS AND ECOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL DRIVERS OF TRANSIENT LAYER ICE CONTENT IN DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST

• Main Author: Paul, Jason
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholars Commons @ Laurier 2018
• Subjects: Great Slave Lowland; boreal; Picea mariana; Picea glauca; Betula papyrifera; frost susceptible sediments; Integrative Biology; Other Earth Sciences; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; North Slave Region; Yellowknife; Active layer thickness; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2097; https://scholars.wlu.ca/context/etd/article/3215/viewcontent/Jason_Paul___MSc_Thesis___Final.pdf

Accelerated climate warming in northern regions is causing permafrost degradation, leading to the reduction of the areal extent of permafrost. Permafrost is the foundation for many northern ecosystems and communities, so its thaw can have important ecological and societal consequences. Thaw of ice-r...