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: K. E. Frey, W. V. Sobczak, P. J. Mann, R. M. Holmes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: Ecology; QH540-549.5; Life; QH501-531; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Kolyma; Ice; kolyma river; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2279-2016; https://doaj.org/article/20e41e0d0f37420d9cfe409594785702

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...