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We address the fundamental effects of space on dynamic species-to-community interactions that govern function

Month: April 2026

Posted on April 16, 2026May 7, 2026

Greening the scars

Research highlight this week in Nature Plants!

News

  • Greening the scars
  • Vegetation recovery following retrogressive thaw slumps across northern tundra regions
  • Team tracks vegetation recovery from sudden permafrost collapse
  • Meta-analysis of North American Arctic and Boreal Aboveground Biomass Datasets: Assessing Accuracy, Dynamics, and Similarities
  • Machine learning and process-based modeling of spatiotemporal changes in active layer thickness across Alaska
  • Coarse land cover datasets bias Arctic-Boreal wetland methane budgets

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2025 Alaska Fieldwork (Boreal Peatlands, Brooks Foothills, Arctic Coastal Plain)

2024 Alaska Fieldwork (Arctic Coastal Plain)

coming soon....

2023 Alaska Fieldwork (Noatak National Preserve)

2022 Alaska Fieldwork (Brooks Range to Arctic Coastal Plain)

lake drainage
tundra carbon flux
NDVI shrub
NDVI bog
NDVI
collapse scar bog
collapse scar bog

2021 Alaska Fieldwork (Brooks Foothills)

2020 Fieldwork

2019 Alaska Fieldwork (Arctic Coastal Plain)

aerenchyma
1976 drained lake
recently formed pit
recent pit
pit
recent pit
2015 drained
Dr. Andresen setting up mesocosm
ALD
Mavic + Rededge
drained lake
Moss in old pits
recently formed pit
recent pit
Pits
2015 drained via gully
old pit
old pit
Pits

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