The thin brown line: The crucial role of peat in protecting permafrost in Arctic Alaska

Benjamin Gaglioti, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Daniel H Mann, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, Louise Melanie Farquharson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory, Fairbanks, United States, Carson A. Baughman, U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, United States, Benjamin M Jones, U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Vladimir E Romanovsky, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, A. Park Williams, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Laia Andreu-Hayles, ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, CREAF, Center for Ecological research and Forestry Applications, Barcelona, Spain