Twenty years of European mountain permafrost dynamics—the PACE legacy

B Etzelmüller, M Guglielmin, C Hauck… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews and analyses the past 20 years of change and variability of European
mountain permafrost in response to climate change based on time series of ground …

A review of the importance of mineral nitrogen cycling in the plant-soil-microbe system of permafrost-affected soils—changing the paradigm

E Ramm, C Liu, P Ambus… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The paradigm that permafrost-affected soils show restricted mineral nitrogen (N) cycling in
favor of organic N compounds is based on the observation that net N mineralization rates in …

Permafrost degradation in the western Russian arctic

AA Vasiliev, DS Drozdov, AG Gravis… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Global Climate Observing System and Global Terrestrial Observing Network
have identified permafrost as an'Essential Climate Variable,'for which ground temperature …

Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses

AC Foster, JA Wang, GV Frost… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse
set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes …

Potential role of permafrost thaw on increasing Siberian river discharge

P Wang, Q Huang, SP Pozdniakov, S Liu… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Despite the increasing Siberian river discharge, the sensitivity of streamflow to climate
forcing/permafrost thawing is poorly quantified. Based on the Budyko framework and …

Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content

LK Clayton, K Schaefer, MJ Battaglia… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Active layer thickness (ALT) is a critical metric for monitoring permafrost. How soil moisture
influences ALT depends on two competing hypotheses:(a) increased soil moisture increases …

Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems

H Kropp, MM Loranty, SM Natali… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Soils are warming as air temperatures rise across the Arctic and Boreal region concurrent
with the expansion of tall-statured shrubs and trees in the tundra. Changes in vegetation …

The costs of Arctic infrastructure damages due to permafrost degradation

DA Streletskiy, S Clemens, JP Lanckman… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change has adverse impacts on Arctic natural ecosystems and threatens northern
communities by disrupting subsistence practices, limiting accessibility, and putting built …

Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts

A Bartsch, G Pointner, I Nitze, A Efimova… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The accelerating climatic changes and new infrastructure development across the Arctic
require more robust risk and environmental assessment, but thus far there is no consistent …

Biophysical permafrost map indicates ecosystem processes dominate permafrost stability in the Northern Hemisphere

Y Ran, MT Jorgenson, X Li, H **, T Wu… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The stability of permafrost is of fundamental importance to socio-economic well-being and
ecological services, involving broad impacts to hydrological cycling, global budgets of …