Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse: interactions between fire and thermokarst
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1 Institute of Arctic Biology, 311 Irving I Bldg., University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775, USA 2 US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd. MS 962, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA 3 Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Grimmer Strasse 88, Greifswald University, 17487, Greifswald, Germany 4 U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, 214 Irving I Bldg., Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775, USA * now at: Department of Biological Sciences, CW 405, Biological Sciences Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada
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Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse
Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse: interactions between fire and thermokarst I. H. Myers-Smith, J. W. Harden, M. Wilmking, C. C. Fuller, A. D. McGuire, and F. S. Chapin III Institute of Arctic Biology, 311 Irving I Bldg., University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775, USA US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd. MS 962, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA Institute for Bota...
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