The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region
Tibetan permafrost largely formed during the late Pleistocene glacial period and shrank in the Holocene Thermal Maximum period. Quantifying the impacts of paleoclimatic extremes on soil carbon stock can shed light on the vulnerability of permafrost carbon in the future. Here, we synthesize data from...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6744502 2023-05-15T17:55:26+02:00 The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region Ding, Jinzhi Wang, Tao Piao, Shilong Smith, Pete Zhang, Ganlin Yan, Zhengjie Ren, Shuai Liu, Dan Wang, Shiping Chen, Shengyun Dai, Fuqiang He, Jinsheng Li, Yingnian Liu, Yongwen Mao, Jiafu Arain, Altaf Tian, Hanqin Shi, Xiaoying Yang, Yuanhe Zeng, Ning Zhao, Lin 2019-09-13 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6744502/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31519899 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12214-5 en eng Nature Publishing Group UK http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6744502/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31519899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12214-5 © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. CC-BY Article Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12214-5 2019-09-22T00:29:05Z Tibetan permafrost largely formed during the late Pleistocene glacial period and shrank in the Holocene Thermal Maximum period. Quantifying the impacts of paleoclimatic extremes on soil carbon stock can shed light on the vulnerability of permafrost carbon in the future. Here, we synthesize data from 1114 sites across the Tibetan permafrost region to report that paleoclimate is more important than modern climate in shaping current permafrost carbon distribution, and its importance increases with soil depth, mainly through forming the soilʼs physiochemical properties. We derive a new estimate of modern soil carbon stock to 3 m depth by including the paleoclimate effects, and find that the stock ([Formula: see text] PgC) is triple that predicted by ecosystem models (11.5 ± 4.2 s.e.m PgC), which use pre-industrial climate to initialize the soil carbon pool. The discrepancy highlights the urgent need to incorporate paleoclimate information into model initialization for simulating permafrost soil carbon stocks. Text permafrost PubMed Central (PMC) Nature Communications 10 1 |
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Tibetan permafrost largely formed during the late Pleistocene glacial period and shrank in the Holocene Thermal Maximum period. Quantifying the impacts of paleoclimatic extremes on soil carbon stock can shed light on the vulnerability of permafrost carbon in the future. Here, we synthesize data from 1114 sites across the Tibetan permafrost region to report that paleoclimate is more important than modern climate in shaping current permafrost carbon distribution, and its importance increases with soil depth, mainly through forming the soilʼs physiochemical properties. We derive a new estimate of modern soil carbon stock to 3 m depth by including the paleoclimate effects, and find that the stock ([Formula: see text] PgC) is triple that predicted by ecosystem models (11.5 ± 4.2 s.e.m PgC), which use pre-industrial climate to initialize the soil carbon pool. The discrepancy highlights the urgent need to incorporate paleoclimate information into model initialization for simulating permafrost soil carbon stocks. |
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