Soil Sliding in Continuous Permafrost Terrain of Siberia: The Case Study of Soil Respiration and Soil Microbial Activity Dynamics During Ecosystem Re-establishment

• Main Authors: Masyagina, Oxana, Evgrafova, Svetlana, Prokushkin, Stanislav, Prokushkin, Anatolii
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2013
• Subjects: Tunguska; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/28718/; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31337-0_45

In forested ecosystems developed on permafrost, solifluction processes are widespread, occur in years of above average summer-autumn precipitation and can cover up to 20 % of total area of slopes adjacent to rivers. This process is the most destructive natural disturbance event resulting in complete...