Variations in soil carbon dioxide efflux across a thaw slump chronosequence in northwestern Alaska

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Jensen, A E ^a   Lohse, K A ^a   Crosby, B T ^a   Mora, C I ^b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

arctic; bulk density; chronosequence; climate change; soil moisture; soil organic matter; soil temperature; thaw slump; thermal erosion; thermokarst

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; THAWING;

ARCTIC; BULK DENSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCES; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; THAW SLUMP; THERMAL EROSION; THERMOKARST;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BULK DENSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PERMAFROST; SLUMPING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUBSIDENCE; THERMOKARST;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896839274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/2/025001     Document Type: Article

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