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ONE EARTH
卷 4, 期 12, 页码 1718-1729出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.11.011
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- NSF [1023477, 1636476, 1928048]
- Polar Geospatial Center under NSF PLR awards [1043681, 1559691]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1636476] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1928048] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Climate warming and wildfires have synergistically accelerated thermokarst in Arctic Alaska, with thermokarst rates increasing significantly over the past few decades. Climate change is identified as the primary driver of thermokarst formation, while wildfires, despite burning a small portion of the landscape, disproportionately contribute to the phenomenon.
Climate warming is projected to intensify tundra wildfire, with profound implications for permafrost thaw. A major uncertainty is how increased burning will interact with climate change to exacerbate thermokarst (ground-surface collapse resulting from permafrost thaw). Here we show that thermokarst rates increased by similar to 60% with warming climate and wildfire from 1950 to 2015 in Arctic Alaska. Wildfire amplified thermokarst over 40+ years, cumulatively creating similar to 9 times thermokarst formation as that in unburned tundra. However, thermokarst triggered by repeat bums did not differ from that triggered by single burns, irrespective of time between fires. Our simulation identified climate change as the principal driver of all thermokarst formed during 1950-2015 (4,700 km(2)) in Arctic Alaska, but wildfire was disproportionately responsible for 10.5% of the thermokarst by burning merely 3.4% of the landscape. These results combined suggest that climate change and wildfire will synergistically accelerate thermokarst as the Arctic transitions in this century.
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