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A Thermodynamic Analysis of Soil Ecosystem Development in Northern Wetlands

scientific article published on 8 October 2016

A database and synthesis of northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon and nitrogen accumulation

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A decade of boreal rich fen greenhouse gas fluxes in response to natural and experimental water table variability.

scientific article

A direct approach to quantifying organic matter lost as a result of peatland wildfire

scientific article published in 2001

A dynamic organic soil biogeochemical model for simulating the effects of wildfire on soil environmental conditions and carbon dynamics of black spruce forests

scholarly article

A pan-Arctic synthesis of CH4 and CO2 production from anoxic soil incubations

scientific article published on 24 January 2015

A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

scientific article

A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

Abundance of microbial genes associated with nitrogen cycling as indices of biogeochemical process rates across a vegetation gradient in Alaska

scientific article

Alaska’s changing fire regime — implications for the vulnerability of its boreal forests

scholarly article by Eric S. Kasischke et al published July 2010 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Algae alleviate carbon limitation of heterotrophic bacteria in a boreal peatland

scientific article published in 2015

Altered Composition and Microbial versus UV-Mediated Degradation of Dissolved Organic Matter in Boreal Soils Following Wildfire

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Arctic fires re-emerging

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Assessing Boreal Peat Fire Severity and Vulnerability of Peatlands to Early Season Wildland Fire

scientific article published in 2020

Assessing the Potential for Mobilization of Old Soil Carbon After Permafrost Thaw: A Synthesis of 14 C Measurements From the Northern Permafrost Region

scientific article

BAWLD-CH4: A Comprehensive Dataset of Methane Fluxes from Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems

BAWLD-CH<sub>4</sub>: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems

scientific article published on 05 November 2021

Bacterial and enchytraeid abundance accelerate soil carbon turnover along a lowland vegetation gradient in interior Alaska

scholarly article by M.P. Waldrop et al published July 2012 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

article published in 2018

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

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Black spruce (Picea mariana) seed availability and viability in boreal forests after large wildfires

scientific article published on 23 January 2023

Boreal bog<i>Sphagnum</i>refixes soil-produced and respired<sup>14</sup>CO<sub>2</sub>

scientific article published in 1999

Boreal peatland C fluxes under varying permafrost regimes

scientific article published in 2002

Carbon Fluxes and Microbial Activities From Boreal Peatlands Experiencing Permafrost Thaw

scholarly article by Mark P. Waldrop et al published March 2021 in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences

Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Dynamics Following Permafrost Thaw in the Northwest Territories, Canada

scientific article published in 2022

Carbon and nitrogen cycling dynamics following permafrost thaw in the Northwest Territories, Canada

scientific article published in November 2022

Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Cascading effects of predators on algal size structure

scientific article published in 2022

Characterizing Boreal Peatland Plant Composition and Species Diversity with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Chemistry of burning the forest floor during the FROSTFIRE experimental burn, interior Alaska, 1999

scholarly article by J. W. Harden et al published 28 August 2004 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Circumpolar assessment of permafrost C quality and its vulnerability over time using long-term incubation data

scientific article

Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

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Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback.

scientific article published on April 2015

Climate change decreases the cooling effect from postfire albedo in boreal North America

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Conceptual frameworks in peatland ecohydrology: looking beyond the two-layered (acrotelm-catotelm) model

Consequences of Increased Variation in Peatland Hydrology for Carbon Storage: Legacy Effects of Drought and Flood in a Boreal Fen Ecosystem

scientific article

Contributions of algae to GPP and DOC production in an Alaskan fen: effects of historical water table manipulations on ecosystem responses to a natural flood ⬇️

scientific article published on December 27, 2011

Controls on Stable Methane Isotope Values in Northern Peatlands and Potential Shifts in Values Under Permafrost Thaw Scenarios

scientific article published in 2024

Controls on boreal peat combustion and resulting emissions of carbon and mercury

Controls on ecosystem and root respiration across a permafrost and wetland gradient in interior Alaska

scholarly article by Nicole A McConnell et al published 1 December 2013 in Environmental Research Letters

Controls on methane released through ebullition in peatlands affected by permafrost degradation

scientific article

Corrigendum: Identifying Functional Impacts of Heat-Resistant Fungi on Boreal Forest Recovery After Wildfire

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Cross-scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest mega-fires

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Current disturbance and the diminishing peatland carbon sink

article published in 2002

Decadal and long-term boreal soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration rates across a variety of ecosystems

scholarly article by Kristen L. Manies et al published 1 August 2016 in Biogeosciences

Decomposition and Organic Matter Quality in Continental Peatlands: The Ghost of Permafrost Past

scientific article published in 2004

Deep roots of Carex aquatilis have greater ammonium uptake capacity than shallow roots in peatlands following permafrost thaw

scientific article published in 2021

Differential response of carbon fluxes to climate in three peatland ecosystems that vary in the presence and stability of permafrost

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Effects of Experimental Water Table and Temperature Manipulations on Ecosystem CO2 Fluxes in an Alaskan Rich Fen

article by M. R. Chivers et al published 31 October 2009 in Ecosystems

Effects of permafrost thaw on nitrogen availability and plant–soil interactions in a boreal Alaskan lowland

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Effects of soil moisture and water depth on ERS SAR backscatter measurements from an Alaskan wetland complex

scientific article published on 23 May 2009

Effects of soil rewetting and thawing on soil gas fluxes: a review of current literature and suggestions for future research

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Effects of wildfire and permafrost on soil organic matter and soil climate in interior Alaska

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Environmental and physical controls on northern terrestrial methane emissions across permafrost zones

scientific article

Evaluating Sphagnum traits in the context of resource economics and optimal partitioning theories

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Evaluating the potential of Landsat TM/ETM+ imagery for assessing fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests

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Evaluation of the composite burn index for assessing fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests

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Evidence for elevated emissions from high-latitude wetlands contributing to high atmospheric CH4concentration in the early Holocene

scholarly article

Examining the utility of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in boreal peatlands

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Experimental drying intensifies burning and carbon losses in a northern peatland.

scientific article published on November 2011

Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

scholarly article by Edward A. G. Schuur et al published 26 March 2013 in Climatic Change

Fire characteristics and environmental conditions shape plant communities via regeneration strategy

scientific article

Fire, climate change, and forest resilience in interior Alaska

scholarly article by Jill Johnstone et al published July 2010 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society

scientific article published in 2020

Fuel Loads and Plant Traits as Community‐Level Predictors of Emergent Properties of Vulnerability and Resilience to a Changing Fire Regime in Black Spruce Forests of Boreal Alaska

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions

scientific article published in 2020

Fuel load, structure, and potential fire behaviour in black spruce bogs

Getting to the Root of Plant‐Mediated Methane Emissions and Oxidation in a Thermokarst Bog

scientific article

Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss

article published in 2015

Historical burn area in western Canadian peatlands and its relationship to fire weather indices

scientific article published in 2004

Identifying Functional Impacts of Heat-Resistant Fungi on Boreal Forest Recovery After Wildfire

scientific article

Identifying increasing risks of hazards for northern land-users caused by permafrost thaw: integrating scientific and community-based research approaches

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published in 2020

Impacts of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest

scholarly article by Mike D Flannigan et al published March 2009 in Global Change Biology

Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest

scientific article

Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Influence of Holocene permafrost aggradation and thaw on the paleoecology and carbon storage of a peatland complex in northwestern Canada

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Influence of the permafrost boundary on dissolved organic matter characteristics in rivers within the Boreal and Taiga plains of western Canada

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Interactive Effects of Fire, Soil Climate, and Moss on CO2 Fluxes in Black Spruce Ecosystems of Interior Alaska

scholarly article by Jonathan A. O’Donnell et al published 15 October 2008 in Ecosystems

Interactive effects of vegetation, soil moisture and bulk density on depth of burning of thick organic soils

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Land use greenhouse gas emissions from conventional oil production and oil sands

scientific article published in November 2010

Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Legacy effects of drought alters the aquatic food web of a northern boreal peatland

scientific article published in 2017

Letter: Trophic interactions regulate peatland carbon cycling

scientific article published in 2021

Losing Legacies, Ecological Release, and Transient Responses: Key Challenges for the Future of Northern Ecosystem Science

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Lowering water table reduces carbon sink strength and carbon stocks in northern peatlands

scientific article published in 2022

Mapping and understanding the vulnerability of northern peatlands to permafrost thaw at scales relevant to community adaptation planning

scholarly article by Carolyn Gibson et al published 1 May 2021 in Environmental Research Letters

Material Legacies and Environmental Constraints Underlie Fire Resilience of a Dominant Boreal Forest Type

scientific article published in 2022

Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements

scientific article published on 25 February 2023

Methanogenesis and Methanogen Diversity in Three Peatland Types of the Discontinuous Permafrost Zone, Boreal Western Continental Canada

scientific article published on 03 November 2006

Model comparisons for estimating carbon emissions from North American wildland fire

scholarly article

Modeling CH4 and CO2 cycling using porewater stable isotopes in a thermokarst bog in Interior Alaska: results from three conceptual reaction networks

scholarly article by Rebecca B. Neumann et al published 16 December 2015 in Biogeochemistry

Modeling fire severity in black spruce stands in the Alaskan boreal forest using spectral and non-spectral geospatial data

scientific article published on 25 March 2010

Modeling the effects of fire severity and climate warming on active layer thickness and soil carbon storage of black spruce forests across the landscape in interior Alaska

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Moderate drop in water table increases peatland vulnerability to post-fire regime shift.

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

More frequent burning increases vulnerability of Alaskan boreal black spruce forests

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Multi-omics of permafrost, active layer and thermokarst bog soil microbiomes

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

Natural selection on a carbon cycling trait drives ecosystem engineering by Sphagnum (peat moss)

scientific article published in 2021

Organic matter accumulation, peat chemistry, and permafrost melting in peatlands of boreal Alberta

scientific article published in 2000

Organic matter stocks increase with degree of invasion in temperate inland wetlands

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Past permafrost dynamics can inform future permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks

Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Wildfire Carbon Combustion Across Six Ecoregions of the North American Boreal Forest

scientific article

Permafrost Thaw in Northern Peatlands: Rapid Changes in Ecosystem and Landscape Functions

Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic

scientific article published in 2022

Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Permafrost thaw causes large carbon loss in boreal peatlands while changes to peat quality are limited

scientific article published in 2023

Permafrost thaw induces short‐term increase in vegetation productivity in northwestern Canada

scientific article published in 2023

Plant functional group effects on peat carbon cycling in a boreal rich fen

scientific article published in 2019

Post-fire Recovery of Soil Organic Layer Carbon in Canadian Boreal Forests

scientific article published in 2023

Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils

scholarly article by Christina Schädel et al published 13 June 2016 in Nature Climate Change

Predicting patterns of terrestrial lichen biomass recovery following boreal wildfires

scientific article published in 2021

Publisher Correction: Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science

scientific article

Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands

scholarly article

Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region—Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska

scientific article published on 03 May 2006

Recovery of carbon pools a decade after wildfire in black spruce forests of interior Alaska: effects of soil texture and landscape position

scientific article published in 2018

Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science

scientific article

Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2022

Resilience of Alaska’s boreal forest to climatic changeThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming

scholarly article by F.S. Chapin et al published July 2010 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Response of anaerobic carbon cycling to water table manipulation in an Alaskan rich fen

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Response of plant community structure and primary productivity to experimental drought and flooding in an Alaskan fen

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Seasonal ice and hydrologic controls on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in a boreal-rich fen

scholarly article

Short-term response of methane fluxes and methanogen activity to water table and soil warming manipulations in an Alaskan peatland

scholarly article

Soil carbon distribution in Alaska in relation to soil-forming factors

scholarly article by Kristofer Johnson et al published November 2011 in Geoderma

Soil organic layer combustion in boreal black spruce and jack pine stands of the Northwest Territories, Canada

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Sources and fate of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon in lakes of a Boreal Plains region recently affected by wildfire

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Spatial pattern of intraspecific trait variability in <i>Sphagnum fuscum</i>

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Sphagnum mosses limit total carbon consumption during fire in Alaskan black spruce forests

scientific article published on 28 July 2008

Structuring Life After Death: Plant Leachates Promote CO2 Uptake by Regulating Microbial Biofilm Interactions in a Northern Peatland Ecosystem

scientific article published in 2023

Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada – Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology

Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada – Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology

scientific article

Ten new insights in climate science 2020 – a horizon scan

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

The Rhizosphere Responds: Rich Fen Peat and Root Microbial Ecology after Long-Term Water Table Manipulation

scientific article

The Role of Bryophytes in Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling

scientific article published on 13 July 2006

The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

The Sphagnum microbiome: new insights from an ancient plant lineage.

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

The Zero Emissions Commitment and climate stabilization

The ecohydrology of forested peatlands: Simulating the effects of tree shading on moss evaporation and species composition

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The effect of long-term drying associated with experimental drainage and road construction on vegetation composition and productivity in boreal fens

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The importance of nutrient co-limitation in regulating algal community composition, productivity and algal-derived DOC in an oligotrophic marsh in interior Alaska

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The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems

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The response of boreal peatland community composition and NDVI to hydrologic change, warming and elevated carbon dioxide

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The response of soil organic carbon of a rich fen peatland in interior Alaska to projected climate change

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The role of mosses in ecosystem succession and function in Alaska’s boreal forestThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming

scholarly article by Merritt R. Turetsky et al published July 2010 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Topographic controls on black carbon accumulation in Alaskan black spruce forest soils: implications for organic matter dynamics

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Topographic influences on wildfire consumption of soil organic carbon in interior Alaska: Implications for black carbon accumulation

scholarly article

Trade-offs in resource allocation among moss species control decomposition in boreal peatlands

scientific article published in 2008

Tradeoffs between phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation influence the ecophysiology of the moss, Sphagnum magellanicum

scientific article published in 2020

Transport of oxygen in soil pore-water systems: implications for modeling emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from peatlands

Variation in carbon and nitrogen concentrations among peatland categories at the global scale

scientific article published in 2022

Variation in fuel structure of boreal fens

Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance

scholarly article

Warming Effects of Spring Rainfall Increase Methane Emissions From Thawing Permafrost

scholarly article

We Must Stop Fossil Fuel Emissions to Protect Permafrost Ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 July 2022

When the Source of Flooding Matters: Divergent Responses in Carbon Fluxes in an Alaskan Rich Fen to Two Types of Inundation

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Wildfire as a key determinant of peatland microtopography

scholarly article by Brian W. Benscoter et al published August 2015 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Wildfire combustion and carbon stocks in the southern Canadian boreal forest: Implications for a warming world

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Wildfire severity reduces richness and alters composition of soil fungal communities in boreal forests of western Canada

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Wildfires threaten mercury stocks in northern soils

scholarly article by Merritt R. Turetsky et al published 2006 in Geophysical Research Letters

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