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.
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Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
2018
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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 |
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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