Annual carbon gas budget for a subarctic peatland, Northern Sweden

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: K. Bäckstrand, P. M. Crill, M. Jackowicz-Korczyñski, M. Mastepanov, T. R. Christensen, D. Bastviken
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2010
• Subjects: Ecology; QH540-549.5; Life; QH501-531; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Stordalen; Eriophorum; Northern Sweden; palsa; permafrost; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-95-2010; https://doaj.org/article/1f2121f508b0400b95cfc51f6345ec48

Temperatures in the Arctic regions are rising, thawing permafrost and exposing previously stable soil organic carbon (OC) to decomposition. This can result in northern latitude soils, which have accumulated large amounts of OC potentially shifting from atmospheric C sinks to C sources with positive...