Annual carbon gas budget for a subarctic peatland, Northern Sweden

• Main Authors: Backstrand, K., Crill, P. M., Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin, Mastepanov, Mikhail, Christensen, T. R., Bastviken, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2010
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Arctic; Stordalen; Eriophorum; Northern Sweden; palsa; permafrost; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1571167

Temperatures in the Arctic regions are rising, thawing permafrost and exposing previously stable soil organic carbon (OC) to decomposition. This can result in northern latitude soils, which have accumulated large amounts of OC potentially shifting from atmospheric C sinks to C sources with positive...