Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: An expert assessment

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Abbott, Benjamin W ^a,b   Jones, Jeremy B ^b   Schuur, Edward A G ^c   Chapin Iii, F Stuart ^b   Bowden, William B ^d   Bret Harte, M Syndonia ^b   Epstein, Howard E ^e   Flannigan, Michael D ^f   Harms, Tamara K ^b   Hollingsworth, Teresa N ^b   Mack, Michelle C ^c   McGuire, A David ^b   Natali, Susan M ^g   Rocha, Adrian V ^h   Tank, Suzanne E ^f   Turetsky, Merritt R ⁱ   Vonk, Jorien E ^j   Wickland, Kimberly P ^k   Aiken, George R ^k   Alexander, Heather D ^l   Amon, Rainer M W ^m   Benscoter, Brian W ⁿ   Bergeron, Yves ^o   Bishop, Kevin ^p,q   Blarquez, Olivier ^r   Bond Lamberty, Ben ^s   Breen, Amy L ^b   Buffam, Ishi ^t   Cai, Yihua ^u   Carcaillet, Christopher ^v   Carey, Sean K ^w   Chen, Jing M ^x   Chen, Han Y H ^y   Christensen, Torben R ^z,aa   Cooper, Lee W ^ab   Cornelissen, J Hans C ^j   De Groot, William J ^ac   Deluca, Thomas H ^ad   Dorrepaal, Ellen ^ae   Fetcher, Ned ^af   Finlay, Jacques C ^ag   Forbes, Bruce C ^ah   French, Nancy H F ^ai   Gauthier, Sylvie ^ac   Girardin, Martin P ^ac   Goetz, Scott J ^g   Goldammer, Johann G ^aj   Gough, Laura ^ak   Grogan, Paul ^al   Guo, Laodong ^am   Higuera, Philip E ^an   Hinzman, Larry ^b   Hu, Feng Sheng ^ao   Hugelius, Gustaf ^ap   Jafarov, Elchin E ^aq   Jandt, Randi ^b   Johnstone, Jill F ^ar   Karlsson, Jan ^ae   Kasischke, Eric S ^as   Kattner, Gerhard ^at   Kelly, Ryan ^au   Keuper, Frida ^ae,av   Kling, George W ^aw   Kortelainen, Pirkko ^ax   Kouki, Jari ^ay   Kuhry, Peter ^ap   Laudon, Hjalmar ^q   Laurion, Isabelle ^ba   MacDonald, Robie W ^bb   Mann, Paul J ^bc   Martikainen, Pertti J ^ay   McClelland, James W ^bd   Molau, Ulf ^be   Oberbauer, Steven F ^bf   Olefeldt, David ^f   Paré, David ^ac   Parisien, Marc André ^ac   Payette, Serge ^bg   Peng, Changhui ^bh,bi   Pokrovsky, Oleg S ^bj,bk   Rastetter, Edward B ^bl   Raymond, Peter A ^bm   Raynolds, Martha K ^b   Rein, Guillermo ^bn   Reynolds, James F ^bo,bp   Robards, Martin ^bq   Rogers, Brendan M ^g   Schdel, Christina ^c   Schaefer, Kevin ^aq   Schmidt, Inger K ^br   Shvidenko, Anatoly ^bs,bt   Sky, Jasper ^bu   Spencer, Robert G M ^bv   Starr, Gregory ^bw   Striegl, Robert G ^k   Teisserenc, Roman ^bx   Tranvik, Lars J ^p   Virtanen, Tarmo ^by   Welker, Jeffrey M ^bz   Zimov, Sergei ^az   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^j VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^l MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

ⁿ FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^p UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^q SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^r UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^s PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^u XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^v Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystemes Naturels et Anthropises   (France)

^w MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^x UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^y LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^z LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^aa AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^ac LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^ae UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^af WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^ai MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aj MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^ak TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^al QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^am UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^an UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^ap STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^as UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^at ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^au Neptune and Company Inc   (United States)

^av Inst Natl de la Rech Agronomique   (France)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^ax FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^ay UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^az RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^ba CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^bb FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^bc NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^bd UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^be UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^bf FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bg CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^bh UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^bi NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^bj CNRS   (France)

^bk TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^bl ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^bm Yale University   (United States)

^bn IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^bo LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^bp DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bq WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^br UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^bs INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^bt SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^bu Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research   (United Kingdom)

^bv FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bw The University of Alabama   (United States)

^bx UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^by UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^bz UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arctic; boreal; coastal erosion; dissolved organic carbon; particulate organic carbon; permafrost carbon; wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DECAY (ORGANIC); FIRES; FORESTRY; ORGANIC CARBON;

ARCTIC; BOREAL; COASTAL EROSION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; WILDFIRE;

PERMAFROST;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PERMAFROST; RIVER BASIN; SOIL CARBON; STREAM; VEGETATION COVER; WATER STRESS; WILDFIRE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84962306957     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034014     Document Type: Article

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