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Author : Edlund, S.A.
Date : 1981
Title : Vegetation indicates potentially unstable Arctic terrain
Publication : Geo
Issue : 18(3):
Page(s) : 9-13



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Abstract

According to recent climatic models. warming the atmosphere due to increased "greenhouse gases" would probably affect the North most severely. Predicting likely environmental changes in the Arctic is difficult, however, because we lack detailed knowledge of how plant distributions, the climate and substrates interrelate in the Arctic. Ground ice plays a major role in the hydrology of the study region, often allowing active layer detachment slides, retrogressive thaw slumps and water ejection from sediments to develop. Vegetation patterns may yield causes as to the distribution and susceptibility of the terrain to such disturbances.

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