Optical properties and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter along a flow-path continuum from soil pore waters to the Kolyma River mainstem, East Siberia

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Frey, Karen, Sobczak, William, Mann, Paul, Holmes, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2016
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Kolyma; Ice; kolyma river; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26588/; https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2279-2016; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26588/1/bg-13-2279-2016.pdf

The Kolyma River in northeast Siberia is among the six largest Arctic rivers and drains a region underlain by vast deposits of Holocene-aged peat and Pleistocene-aged loess known as yedoma, most of which is currently stored in ice-rich permafrost throughout the region. These peat and yedoma deposits...