Permafrost thaw stimulates primary producers but has a moderate effect on primary consumers in subarctic ponds

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Wauthy, Maxime, Rautio, Milla
• Other Authors: Canada Research Chairs, Canada Foundation for Innovation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Browning; Ice; permafrost; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3099; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fecs2.3099; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3099; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ecs2.3099; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3099

Abstract Frozen tundra soils hold one of the Earth's largest pools of organic carbon. Climate warming and the associated permafrost thaw release a large fraction of this carbon into circumpolar lakes, inducing extreme browning that fuels the heterotrophic microbial food web. How this permafrost...