Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon

  • Joshua F. Dean,
  • Ove H. Meisel,
  • Melanie Martyn Rosco,
  • Luca Belelli Marchesini,
  • Mark H. Garnett,
  • Henk Lenderink,
  • Richard van Logtestijn,
  • Alberto V. Borges,
  • Steven Bouillon,
  • Thibault Lambert,
  • Thomas Röckmann,
  • Trofim Maximov,
  • Roman Petrov,
  • Sergei Karsanaev,
  • Rien Aerts,
  • Jacobus van Huissteden,
  • Jorien E. Vonk,
  • A. Johannes Dolman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15511-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The release of ancient carbon from thawing permafrost is thought to have an important impact on global biogeochemistry through positive feedbacks. Here Dean and colleagues show that in Siberian permafrost, warming could liberate more contemporary carbon relative to aged counterparts.