Soil organic matter and stable carbon isotopes in surficial permafrost on Herschel Island, Yukon Territories, Canada

• Main Author: Baltruschat, Stefan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Herschel; Herschel Island; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39021/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39021/1/Bachelorthesis_Baltruscht.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46246; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46246.d001

Organic matter in soils of northern high latitudes show a high lability to recent permafrost thaw. Mobilisation and release of soil organic matter (SOM) in permafrost areas might have a significant impact on the carbon and nitrogen flux into the marine environment and in the atmosphere which motivat...