Soil organic matter characteristics in surficial permafrost sediments on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

• Main Authors: Baltruschat, Stefan, Fritz, Michael, Obu, Jaroslav, Lantuit, Hugues, Hinderer, Matthias
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2015
• Subjects: Herschel; Herschel Island; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38826/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38826/1/book_of_abstracts_geoberlin_2015.pdf; http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1314059/component/escidoc:1314718/Geoberlin_2015.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46093; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46093.d001

Recent mobilisation of soil organic matter (SOM) in permafrost of the northern high latitudes is thought to have a significant impact on the carbon balance in the atmosphere. However, the environmental processes which influence SOM accumulation and remobilisation still need to be investigated more a...