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Yifeng Wang
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Permafrost researcher 🧊
Amateur rock collector 🪨
Mediocre sport climber 🧗‍♀️
Read more about it in our ERL paper!
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Thanks to the audience for the tough questions and to the session chairs and the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board for sponsoring this session. 🦌🌿🫐
Multi-decadal degradation and fragmentation of palsas and peat plateaus in coastal Labrador, northeastern Canada - IOPscienceSearch
Multi-decadal degradation and fragmentation of palsas and peat plateaus in coastal Labrador, northeastern Canada, Yifeng Wang, Robert G Way, Jordan Beer
doi.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:04 PM
On the ground, we are also seeing this thaw-related greening signal, through an increase in shrubs and a decrease in other ecologically and culturally important cover, like lichens. 🦌
December 12, 2024 at 12:01 PM
We used historical air photos from as early as 1948 to assess change in palsas and peat plateaus through time. We found rapid degradation and increasing fragmentation of landforms through time, linked to regional warming and local greening.
December 12, 2024 at 11:50 AM