Rapid responses of permafrost and vegetation to experimentally increased snow cover in sub-arctic Sweden

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Johansson, Margareta ^a,b   Callaghan, Terry V ^b,c   Bosiö, Julia ^a   Åkerman, H Jonas ^a   Jackowicz Korczynski, Marcin ^a   Christensen, Torben R ^a,d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d Greenland Climate Research Centre   (Greenland)

Author keywords

active layer thickness; snow manipulation; sub arctic permafrost; vegetation changes

Indexed keywords

SNOW; VEGETATION;

ACTIVE LAYER; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SUB-ARCTIC; SURFACE SUBSIDENCE; VEGETATION CHANGE; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

PERMAFROST;

ACTIVE LAYER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; PEAT; PERMAFROST; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SUBARCTIC REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SWEDEN;

ERIOPHORUM VAGINATUM;

EID: 84885460845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035025     Document Type: Article

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