Modeling vulnerability to thermokarst disturbance and its consequences on regional land cover dynamic in boreal Alaska

Helene Genet1, Mark J Lara2, Bob Bolton3 and Anthony David McGuire1,4, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Plant Biology, Urbana, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Fairbanks, AK, United States