Wildfires lead to decreased carbon and increased nitrogen concentrations in upland arctic streams

• Main Authors: Rodriguez-Cardona, Bianca M., Coble, A. A., Wymore, Adam S., Kolosov, R., Podgorski, D. C., Zito, P., Spencer, R. G. M., Projushkin, A. S., McDowell, William H.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2020
• Subjects: Biogeochemistry; Limnology; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yenisei River; Climate change
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/nress/2; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65520-0; https://scholars.unh.edu/context/nress/article/1000/viewcontent/RodriguezCardona_et_al_2020_ScientificReports_CSP_Fire_uptake.pdf

The Central Siberian Plateau is undergoing rapid climate change that has resulted in increased frequency of forest fires and subsequent alteration of watershed carbon and nutrient dynamics. Across a watershed chronosequence (3 to >100 years since wildfire) we quantified the effects of fire on qua...