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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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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...
