Controls on Soil Organic Matter Degradation and Subsequent Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across a Permafrost Thaw Gradient in Northern Sweden

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: AminiTabrizi, Roya, Wilson, Rachel M., Fudyma, Jane D., Hodgkins, Suzanne B., Heyman, Heino M., Rich, Virginia I., Saleska, Scott R., Chanton, Jeffrey P., Tfaily, Malak M.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Stordalen; Northern Sweden; Peat; Peat plateau; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1687360; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1687360; https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.557961

Warming-induced permafrost thaw could enhance microbial decomposition of previously stored soil organic matter (SOM) to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ), one of the most significant potential feedbacks from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere in a changing climate. The environmental p...