High nitrous oxide production from thawing permafrost

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 332-335

  Elberling, Bo ^a,b   Christiansen, Hanne H ^b   Hansen, Birger U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MELTWATER; METHANE; PERMAFROST; SOIL CARBON; THAWING; TROPICAL FOREST; WETLAND;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ZACKENBERG;

EID: 77951994468     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo803     Document Type: Article

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