Geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in North Slope Arctic soils, Alaska, 2014
Arctic soils contain a large amount of carbon due to low temperatures causing minimal degradation of organic compounds. As temperatures rise, the frozen soil thaws allowing increased microbial activity. Analysis of plant leaf waxes (alkane) concentrations in the Alaska region provide insight into th...
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ftdatacite:10.18739/a2d795b08 2023-05-15T14:35:56+02:00 Geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in North Slope Arctic soils, Alaska, 2014 Ziolkowski, Lori 2019 text/xml https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2d795b08 https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.18739/A2D795B08 en eng Arctic Data Center alkanes soil arctic dataset Dataset 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.18739/a2d795b08 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Arctic soils contain a large amount of carbon due to low temperatures causing minimal degradation of organic compounds. As temperatures rise, the frozen soil thaws allowing increased microbial activity. Analysis of plant leaf waxes (alkane) concentrations in the Alaska region provide insight into the carbon accumulated in the soil and the degradation processes that are occurring. In this study we examined the concentration and distribution of alkanes along a north-south transect from the Arctic Ocean to the Brooks Range along with other geochemical parameters. We found that while there were no significant differences in surface alkane composition, there were site specific variations with depth, which may be due a combination of different carbon inputs and degradation processes. Dataset Arctic Arctic Ocean Brooks Range north slope Alaska DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Arctic Ocean |
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Arctic soils contain a large amount of carbon due to low temperatures causing minimal degradation of organic compounds. As temperatures rise, the frozen soil thaws allowing increased microbial activity. Analysis of plant leaf waxes (alkane) concentrations in the Alaska region provide insight into the carbon accumulated in the soil and the degradation processes that are occurring. In this study we examined the concentration and distribution of alkanes along a north-south transect from the Arctic Ocean to the Brooks Range along with other geochemical parameters. We found that while there were no significant differences in surface alkane composition, there were site specific variations with depth, which may be due a combination of different carbon inputs and degradation processes. |
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Geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in North Slope Arctic soils, Alaska, 2014 |
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Geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in North Slope Arctic soils, Alaska, 2014 |
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Geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in North Slope Arctic soils, Alaska, 2014 |
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Geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in North Slope Arctic soils, Alaska, 2014 |
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Geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in North Slope Arctic soils, Alaska, 2014 |
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geochemical composition and n-alkane abundance in north slope arctic soils, alaska, 2014 |
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