Optical properties and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter along a flow-path continuum from soil pore waters to the Kolyma River mainstem, East Siberia

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Frey, Karen E., Sobczak, William V., Mann, Paul J., Holmes, Robert M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kolyma; Ice; kolyma river; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2279-2016; https://www.biogeosciences.net/13/2279/2016/

The Kolyma River in northeast Siberia is among the six largest Arctic rivers and drains a region underlain by vast deposits of Holocene-aged peat and Pleistocene-aged loess known as yedoma, most of which is currently stored in ice-rich permafrost throughout the region. These peat and yedoma deposits...