High Arctic wetting reduces permafrost carbon feedbacks to climate warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-55

  Lupascu, M ^a   Welker, J M ^b   Seibt, U ^c,d   Maseyk, K ^d   Xu, X ^a   Czimczik, C I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON EMISSION; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE COVER; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84890942799     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2058     Document Type: Article

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