Effects of thermo-erosional disturbance on surface soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in upland arctic tundra

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Pizano, Camila ^a   Barón, Andrés F ^a   Schuur, Edward A G ^a   Crummer, Kathryn G ^a   Mack, Michelle C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

arctic tundra; carbon and nitrogen pools; deciduous shrubs; permfrost soil; thermo erosional disturbance

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EROSION; LAKES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NITROGEN; SOILS; THAWING;

ARCTIC TUNDRA; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; CARBON AND NITROGEN; DECIDUOUS SHRUBS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; THERMO-EROSIONAL DISTURBANCE;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84905179425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075006     Document Type: Article

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