Thermokarst Rates Intensify Due to Climate Change and Forest Fragmentation in an Alaskan Boreal Forest Lowland

Mark J Lara1, Helene Genet2, Anthony David McGuire2, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen2, Yujin Zhang3, Dana Nossov Brown4, Torre Jorgenson5, Vladimir E Romanovsky6, Amy Lynn Breen7 and Bob Bolton8, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Plant Biology, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (5)Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States