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 Euskirchen3, Yujin Zhang4, Dana Nossov Brown5, Torre Jorgenson6, Vladimir E Romanovsky7, Amy Lynn Breen5 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)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, (6)Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States