Quantifying Microbial Communities of the Methane Cycle in two Subsea Permafrost Deposits of the Central Laptev Sea

• Main Authors: Magritz, Julia, Winkel, Matthias, Overduin, Paul, Knoblauch, Christian, Wagner, Dirk, Liebner, Susanne
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Laptev Sea; Khaya; Buor-Khaya; Global warming; laptev; permafrost
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47848/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.a99e9b0c-1214-46df-b8fa-b4fd2e12570d

Introduction: Submarine arctic permafrost was formed when sea level rise flooded terrestrial permafrost and warmed the frozen sediments during the Holocene. This thawing permafrost may play a major role in global warming as it stores huge amounts of organic carbon. Hitherto, the extent and importanc...