Assessing the ecosystem carbon storage in two subarctic areas : Phytomass and soil organic carbon stocks at Abisko in Sweden and Utsjoki in Finland

• Main Author: Jannike, Andersson
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi 2016
• Subjects: SOC; Soil organic carbon; phytomass carbon; subarctic; Abisko; Utsjoki; Northern Finland; Northern Sweden; permafrost; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-130713

Carbon is stored in natural Earth system reservoirs such as the crust, the atmosphere, the soil, the ocean and the phytomass, and naturally fluctuates in between these pools at different time-scales. However, due to human activities such as burning of fossil fuel and deforestation has the organic ca...