High carbon sequestration in Siberian permafrost loess-paleosols during glacials

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 501-509

  Zech, R ^a,c   Huang, Y ^a   Zech, M ^b   Tarozo, R ^a   Zech, W ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DEUTERIUM; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGLACIAL; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LATITUDE; LOESS; METHANE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC SOIL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PERMAFROST; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; THAWING; TIMESCALE;

SIBERIA;

EID: 79960860231     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-501-2011     Document Type: Article

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