The effects of fire on the thermal stability of permafrost in lowland and upland black spruce forests of interior Alaska in a changing climate

Fire is an important factor controlling the composition and thickness of the organic layer in the black spruce forest ecosystems of interior Alaska. Fire that burns the organic layer can trigger dramatic changes in the underlying permafrost, leading to accelerated ground thawing within a relatively...

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Principais autores:	E E Jafarov, V E Romanovsky, H Genet, A D McGuire, S S Marchenko
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
coleção:	Environmental Research Letters
Assuntos:	permafrost wildfires active layer carbon cycle climate change GIPL
Acesso em linha:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035030
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