Nature Communications (Sep 2019)
The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region
- Jinzhi Ding,
- Tao Wang,
- Shilong Piao,
- Pete Smith,
- Ganlin Zhang,
- Zhengjie Yan,
- Shuai Ren,
- Dan Liu,
- Shiping Wang,
- Shengyun Chen,
- Fuqiang Dai,
- Jinsheng He,
- Yingnian Li,
- Yongwen Liu,
- Jiafu Mao,
- Altaf Arain,
- Hanqin Tian,
- Xiaoying Shi,
- Yuanhe Yang,
- Ning Zeng,
- Lin Zhao
Affiliations
- Jinzhi Ding
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tao Wang
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shilong Piao
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Pete Smith
- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen
- Ganlin Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhengjie Yan
- School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University
- Shuai Ren
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Circular Economy, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University
- Dan Liu
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shiping Wang
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shengyun Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Cryosphere Science Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Fuqiang Dai
- School of Tourism and Land Resources, Chongqing Technology and Business University
- Jinsheng He
- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Yingnian Li
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yongwen Liu
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jiafu Mao
- Environmental Sciences Division, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Altaf Arain
- School of Geography and Earth Sciences and McMaster Centre for Climate Change, McMaster University
- Hanqin Tian
- International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University
- Xiaoying Shi
- Environmental Sciences Division, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Yuanhe Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ning Zeng
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
- Lin Zhao
- Cryosphere Research Station on Qinghai–Xizang Plateau, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco–Environment and Resources (NIEER), Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12214-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
There was extensive degradation during the warm middle Holocene and permafrost area was reduced substantially. Here the authors synthesize data across the Tibetan permafrost region and find that paleoclimate is more important than modern climate in shaping current permafrost carbon distribution, and its importance increases with soil depth.
