Organic Matter Matters – Quantifying the Amount of Carbon in Northern Siberia

The Lena River Delta is underlain by permafrost. Thus, it is highly vulnerable to climate warming and may degrade in different ways, by shoreline erosion, land surface subsidence, deepening of the seasonal thawing front, and development of rapid thaw features such as lakes, gullies and landslides.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Strauss, Jens, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Zubrzycki, Sebastian, Kholodov, Aleksander L., Grigoriev, Mikhail N., Kunitsky, Viktor V., Fuchs, Matthias, Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria, Grosse, Guido
Other Authors: Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang, Bolshiyanov, Dmitry Yu., Morgenstern, Anne, Rachold, Volker
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research 2018
Subjects:
Arctic
lena river
permafrost
Siberia
Online Access:https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48235/
https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48235/2/Strauss_2018_Organic_Matter_Excerpt_from_20years.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.278a39f1-f0df-424f-9bee-4a8f30fd70fd
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Summary:The Lena River Delta is underlain by permafrost. Thus, it is highly vulnerable to climate warming and may degrade in different ways, by shoreline erosion, land surface subsidence, deepening of the seasonal thawing front, and development of rapid thaw features such as lakes, gullies and landslides.

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