Nature Communications (Oct 2022)
A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain
- Jens Strauss,
- Christina Biasi,
- Tina Sanders,
- Benjamin W. Abbott,
- Thomas Schneider von Deimling,
- Carolina Voigt,
- Matthias Winkel,
- Maija E. Marushchak,
- Dan Kou,
- Matthias Fuchs,
- Marcus A. Horn,
- Loeka L. Jongejans,
- Susanne Liebner,
- Jan Nitzbon,
- Lutz Schirrmeister,
- Katey Walter Anthony,
- Yuanhe Yang,
- Sebastian Zubrzycki,
- Sebastian Laboor,
- Claire Treat,
- Guido Grosse
Affiliations
- Jens Strauss
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Christina Biasi
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
- Tina Sanders
- Institute for carbon cycles, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
- Benjamin W. Abbott
- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University
- Thomas Schneider von Deimling
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Carolina Voigt
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
- Matthias Winkel
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Interface Geochemistry Section, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
- Maija E. Marushchak
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
- Dan Kou
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
- Matthias Fuchs
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Marcus A. Horn
- Institute of Microbiology, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Loeka L. Jongejans
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Susanne Liebner
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geomicrobiology Section
- Jan Nitzbon
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Lutz Schirrmeister
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Katey Walter Anthony
- Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Yuanhe Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Sebastian Zubrzycki
- Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg
- Sebastian Laboor
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Claire Treat
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Guido Grosse
- Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33794-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
A climate sensitive permafrost region (Yedoma domain) was found to contain globally relevant N stock of >40 Gt nitrogen, of which 4 to 16 Gt of the N could become available by thaw until 2100. This study increases the current estimates by nearly 50%.
