Permafrost thawing in organic Arctic soils accelerated by ground heat production

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 574-578

  Hollesen, Jrgen ^a,b   Matthiesen, Henning ^b   Møller, Anders Bjørn ^a   Elberling, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b IC Modewegsvej   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT PRODUCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC SOIL; PERMAFROST; THAWING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84929761074     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2590     Document Type: Article

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