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, AK, 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, Barcelona, Spain