A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain
Nitrogen regulates multiple aspects of the permafrost climate feedback, including plant growth, organic matter decomposition, and the production of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Despite its importance, current estimates of permafrost nitrogen are highly uncertain. Here, we compiled a data...
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ftgfzpotsdam:oai:gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de:item_5013460 2023-05-15T17:55:17+02:00 A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain Strauss, J. Biasi, C. Sanders, T. Abbott, B. von Deimling, T. Voigt, C. Winkel, M. Marushchak, M. Kou, D. Fuchs, M. Horn, M. Jongejans, L. Liebner, S. Nitzbon, J. Schirrmeister, L. Walter Anthony, K. Yang, Y. Zubrzycki, S. Laboor, S. Treat, C. Grosse, G. 2022 application/pdf https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5013460 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5013460_1/component/file_5013513/5013460.pdf unknown info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-022-33794-9 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5013460 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5013460_1/component/file_5013513/5013460.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Nature Communications info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2022 ftgfzpotsdam https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33794-9 2022-10-23T23:31:27Z Nitrogen regulates multiple aspects of the permafrost climate feedback, including plant growth, organic matter decomposition, and the production of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Despite its importance, current estimates of permafrost nitrogen are highly uncertain. Here, we compiled a dataset of >2000 samples to quantify nitrogen stocks in the Yedoma domain, a region with organic-rich permafrost that contains ~25% of all permafrost carbon. We estimate that the Yedoma domain contains 41.2 gigatons of nitrogen down to ~20 metre for the deepest unit, which increases the previous estimate for the entire permafrost zone by ~46%. Approximately 90% of this nitrogen (37 gigatons) is stored in permafrost and therefore currently immobile and frozen. Here, we show that of this amount, ¾ is stored >3 metre depth, but if partially mobilised by thaw, this large nitrogen pool could have continental-scale consequences for soil and aquatic biogeochemistry and global-scale consequences for the permafrost feedback. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost GFZpublic (German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam) Nature Communications 13 1 |
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Nitrogen regulates multiple aspects of the permafrost climate feedback, including plant growth, organic matter decomposition, and the production of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Despite its importance, current estimates of permafrost nitrogen are highly uncertain. Here, we compiled a dataset of >2000 samples to quantify nitrogen stocks in the Yedoma domain, a region with organic-rich permafrost that contains ~25% of all permafrost carbon. We estimate that the Yedoma domain contains 41.2 gigatons of nitrogen down to ~20 metre for the deepest unit, which increases the previous estimate for the entire permafrost zone by ~46%. Approximately 90% of this nitrogen (37 gigatons) is stored in permafrost and therefore currently immobile and frozen. Here, we show that of this amount, ¾ is stored >3 metre depth, but if partially mobilised by thaw, this large nitrogen pool could have continental-scale consequences for soil and aquatic biogeochemistry and global-scale consequences for the permafrost feedback. |
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Strauss, J. Biasi, C. Sanders, T. Abbott, B. von Deimling, T. Voigt, C. Winkel, M. Marushchak, M. Kou, D. Fuchs, M. Horn, M. Jongejans, L. Liebner, S. Nitzbon, J. Schirrmeister, L. Walter Anthony, K. Yang, Y. Zubrzycki, S. Laboor, S. Treat, C. Grosse, G. |
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Strauss, J. Biasi, C. Sanders, T. Abbott, B. von Deimling, T. Voigt, C. Winkel, M. Marushchak, M. Kou, D. Fuchs, M. Horn, M. Jongejans, L. Liebner, S. Nitzbon, J. Schirrmeister, L. Walter Anthony, K. Yang, Y. Zubrzycki, S. Laboor, S. Treat, C. Grosse, G. A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain |
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Strauss, J. Biasi, C. Sanders, T. Abbott, B. von Deimling, T. Voigt, C. Winkel, M. Marushchak, M. Kou, D. Fuchs, M. Horn, M. Jongejans, L. Liebner, S. Nitzbon, J. Schirrmeister, L. Walter Anthony, K. Yang, Y. Zubrzycki, S. Laboor, S. Treat, C. Grosse, G. |
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A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain |
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A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain |
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A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain |
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A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain |
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A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain |
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globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the yedoma permafrost domain |
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