The changing thermal state of permafrost

SL Smith, HB O'Neill, K Isaksen, J Noetzli… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Permafrost temperatures have increased in polar and high-elevation regions, affecting the
climate system and the integrity of natural and built environments. In this Review, we outline …

Impact of wildfire on permafrost landscapes: A review of recent advances and future prospects

JE Holloway, AG Lewkowicz… - Permafrost and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the frequency and extent of wildfires are expected to lead to substantial
and irreversible alterations to permafrost landscapes under a warming climate. Here we …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Wildfire as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands

CM Gibson, LE Chasmer, DK Thompson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Permafrost vulnerability to climate change may be underestimated unless effects of wildfire
are considered. Here we assess impacts of wildfire on soil thermal regime and rate of …

Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

MM Loranty, BW Abbott, D Blok, TA Douglas… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Soils in Arctic and boreal ecosystems store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, a
portion of which may be released as high-latitude soils warm. Some of the uncertainty in the …

Increased rainfall stimulates permafrost thaw across a variety of Interior Alaskan boreal ecosystems

TA Douglas, MR Turetsky, CD Koven - NPJ Climate and Atmospheric …, 2020 - nature.com
Earth's high latitudes are projected to experience warmer and wetter summers in the future
but ramifications for soil thermal processes and permafrost thaw are poorly understood …

Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests

S Veraverbeke, BM Rogers, ML Goulden… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in climate and fire regimes are transforming the boreal forest, the world's
largest biome. Boreal North America recently experienced two years with large burned area …

[HTML][HTML] Influences of forest fires on the permafrost environment: A review

XY Li, HJ Jin, HW Wang, SS Marchenko… - Advances in Climate …, 2021 - Elsevier
In boreal and arctic regions, forest fires exert great influences on biogeochemical processes,
hydrothermal dynamics of the active layer and near-surface permafrost, and subsequent …

Ecological response to permafrost thaw and consequences for local and global ecosystem services

EAG Schuur, MC Mack - Annual review of ecology, evolution …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The Arctic may seem remote, but the unprecedented environmental changes occurring there
have important consequences for global society. Of all Arctic system components, changes …