Permafrost-affected soils and their carbon pools with a focus on the Russian Arctic

Solid Earth

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 595-609

  Zubrzycki, S ^a   Kutzbach, L ^a   Pfeiffer, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; PERMAFROST REGION; POLAR AMPLIFICATIONS; QUATERNARY PERIOD; ROBUST ESTIMATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON POOLS; SOURCE FUNCTIONS;

PERMAFROST;

ACCUMULATION RATE; AMPLIFICATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSPHERE; MINERALIZATION; PERMAFROST; POOL; QUATERNARY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; TRACE GAS;

SIBERIA;

EID: 84903988154     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-5-595-2014     Document Type: Article

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