Causes of lowland thermokarst formation and its impacts on carbon cycling and provisioning of ecosystem services

Carolyn Gibson1, Merritt R Turetsky1, Todd Jared Brinkman2, Andrew Spring3 and Jennifer Lynn Baltzer4, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (4)Wilfrid Laurier University, Biology Department, Waterloo, ON, Canada