Predicting long-term carbon mineralization and trace gas production from thawing permafrost of Northeast Siberia

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1160-1172

  Knoblauch, Christian ^a   Beer, Christian ^b   Sosnin, Alexander ^c   Wagner, Dirk ^d   Pfeiffer, Eva Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Decomposition model; Lena River Delta; Methane; Organic matter; Siberia; Tundra

Indexed keywords

CARBON; MINERAL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; HOLOCENE; INCUBATION; METHANE; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE; THAWING; TRACE GAS; TUNDRA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GAS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; GASES; MINERALS; SIBERIA;

ARCTIC; LENA RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84874771233     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12116     Document Type: Article

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