Wildfires lead to decreased carbon and increased nitrogen concentrations in upland arctic streams

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Rodríguez-Cardona, B. M., Coble, A. A., Wymore, A. S., Kolosov, R., Podgorski, D. C., Zito, P., Spencer, R. G. M., Prokushkin, A. S., McDowell, W. H.
• Other Authors: NSF | BIO | Division of Environmental Biology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yenisei River; Climate change
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65520-0; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65520-0.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65520-0

Abstract The Central Siberian Plateau is undergoing rapid climate change that has resulted in increased frequency of forest fires and subsequent alteration of watershed carbon and nutrient dynamics. Across a watershed chronosequence (3 to >100 years since wildfire) we quantified the effects o...