The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region
Abstract Tibetan permafrost largely formed during the late Pleistocene glacial period and shrank in the Holocene Thermal Maximum period. Quantifying the impacts of paleoclimatic extremes on soil carbon stock can shed light on the vulnerability of permafrost carbon in the future. Here, we synthesize...
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crspringernat:10.1038/s41467-019-12214-5 2023-05-15T17:55:35+02:00 The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region Ding, Jinzhi Wang, Tao Piao, Shilong Smith, Pete Zhang, Ganlin Yan, Zhengjie Ren, Shuai Liu, Dan Wang, Shiping Chen, Shengyun Dai, Fuqiang He, Jinsheng Li, Yingnian Liu, Yongwen Mao, Jiafu Arain, Altaf Tian, Hanqin Shi, Xiaoying Yang, Yuanhe Zeng, Ning Zhao, Lin 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12214-5 http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12214-5.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12214-5 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Nature Communications volume 10, issue 1 ISSN 2041-1723 General Physics and Astronomy General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Chemistry journal-article 2019 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12214-5 2022-01-04T07:11:31Z Abstract Tibetan permafrost largely formed during the late Pleistocene glacial period and shrank in the Holocene Thermal Maximum period. Quantifying the impacts of paleoclimatic extremes on soil carbon stock can shed light on the vulnerability of permafrost carbon in the future. Here, we synthesize data from 1114 sites across the Tibetan permafrost region to report that paleoclimate is more important than modern climate in shaping current permafrost carbon distribution, and its importance increases with soil depth, mainly through forming the soilʼs physiochemical properties. We derive a new estimate of modern soil carbon stock to 3 m depth by including the paleoclimate effects, and find that the stock ( $${\mathrm{36}}{\mathrm{.6}}_{{\mathrm{ - 2}}{\mathrm{.4}}}^{{\mathrm{ + 2}}.3}$$ 36 .6 -2 .4 +2 . 3 PgC) is triple that predicted by ecosystem models (11.5 ± 4.2 s.e.m PgC), which use pre-industrial climate to initialize the soil carbon pool. The discrepancy highlights the urgent need to incorporate paleoclimate information into model initialization for simulating permafrost soil carbon stocks. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Springer Nature (via Crossref) Nature Communications 10 1 |
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Abstract Tibetan permafrost largely formed during the late Pleistocene glacial period and shrank in the Holocene Thermal Maximum period. Quantifying the impacts of paleoclimatic extremes on soil carbon stock can shed light on the vulnerability of permafrost carbon in the future. Here, we synthesize data from 1114 sites across the Tibetan permafrost region to report that paleoclimate is more important than modern climate in shaping current permafrost carbon distribution, and its importance increases with soil depth, mainly through forming the soilʼs physiochemical properties. We derive a new estimate of modern soil carbon stock to 3 m depth by including the paleoclimate effects, and find that the stock ( $${\mathrm{36}}{\mathrm{.6}}_{{\mathrm{ - 2}}{\mathrm{.4}}}^{{\mathrm{ + 2}}.3}$$ 36 .6 -2 .4 +2 . 3 PgC) is triple that predicted by ecosystem models (11.5 ± 4.2 s.e.m PgC), which use pre-industrial climate to initialize the soil carbon pool. The discrepancy highlights the urgent need to incorporate paleoclimate information into model initialization for simulating permafrost soil carbon stocks. |
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The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region |
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