7. The Arctic carbon vault
‘The Arctic carbon vault’ describes the large share of Earth's organic carbon sequestered in the frozen ground and within the shelf sea sediments of the Arctic Ocean. The organic carbon stock of the permafrost is roughly equivalent to half of total global soil carbon. A cold Arctic with extensi...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198819288.003.0007 |