Impacts of changing permafrost conditions on vegetation productivity in the northern boreal forest

• Main Author: Ogden, Emily
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholars Commons @ Laurier 2022
• Subjects: Climate change; remote sensing; Northwest Territories; NDVI; Biology; Integrative Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Browning; Canada; Active layer thickness; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2447; https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3590&context=etd

Vegetation productivity across the boreal forest has increased over the past several decades. However, at a regional scale there is large variation from increased (greening) to decreased (browning) productivity and large areas with no measured change. Some of this variation can be explained by distu...