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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3157-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3157-2023
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Research article
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08 Aug 2023
Research article |
| 08 Aug 2023
| 08 Aug 2023
Environmental spaces for palsas and peat plateaus are disappearing at a circumpolar scale
Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland
previously published under the name Oona H. Könönen
Olli Karjalainen
Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland
Juha Aalto
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki,
Helsinki, 00014, Finland
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, 00101, Finland
Miska Luoto
Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland
Jan Hjort
Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland
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- InSAR-measured permafrost degradation of palsa peatlands in northern Sweden S. Valman et al. 10.5194/tc-18-1773-2024
- Water chemistry and greenhouse gas concentrations in waterbodies of a thawing permafrost peatland complex in northern Norway J. Knutson et al. 10.5194/bg-22-3899-2025
- Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change M. Ward Jones et al. 10.1080/15230430.2024.2356067
- A trained Mask R-CNN model over PlanetScope imagery for very-high resolution surface water mapping in boreal forest-tundra P. Freitas et al. 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114047
- Contrasting soil temperature regimes in peatlands of the discontinuous permafrost zone (Western Siberia) T. Raudina et al. 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117294
- The morpho-ecological state of palsa mires in sub-arctic Fennoscandia: insights from high-resolution spatial modelling O. Leppiniemi et al. 10.1016/j.catena.2025.109203
- Machine learning-based predictions of current and future susceptibility to retrogressive thaw slumps across the Northern Hemisphere J. Luo et al. 10.1016/j.accre.2024.03.001
- Morphology and dynamics of thermokarst ponds in a subarctic permafrost peatland, northern Sweden F. Seemann & A. Sannel 10.1002/esp.6021
- Late Holocene palsa formation in northern Fennoscandia: Fossil pollen indication and climatic trigger V. Jankovská et al. 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105253
- Discrete ecological gradient in thermokarst ponds in a palsa mire in northern Norway E. Jabłońska et al. 10.1038/s41598-025-13046-8
- Can Ground-Penetrating Radar Detect Thermal Gradients in the Active Layer of Frozen Peatlands? P. Ryazantsev 10.3390/rs17111805
- Permafrost Peat Plateau on Sosnovets Island: Formation and Long-Term Stability (the White Sea, NW Russia) S. Kutenkov et al. 10.1177/09596836251340827
Latest update: 28 Aug 2025
Short summary
For the first time, suitable environments for palsas and peat plateaus were modeled for the whole Northern Hemisphere. The hotspots of occurrences were in northern Europe, western Siberia, and subarctic Canada. Climate change was predicted to cause almost complete loss of the studied landforms by the late century. Our predictions filled knowledge gaps in the distribution of the landforms, and they can be utilized in estimation of the pace and impacts of the climate change over northern regions.
For the first time, suitable environments for palsas and peat plateaus were modeled for the...
