The Depth Distribution of Organic Carbon in Mineral Cryosols at Two Sites in the Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Phillips, Marcus
• Other Authors: Bedard-Haughn, Angela K., Anderson, Darwin W., Pennock, Dan J., Siciliano, Steven D.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2011
• Subjects: cryoturbation; Cryosol; carbon; organic carbon; Arctic; permafrost; Devon Island; Nunavut; Wright Pass; Yukon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2011-10-176

The northern circumpolar permafrost region covers over 15% of the earth’s land surface, and contains about 50% of global belowground organic carbon (OC). There has been a great deal of recent interest in cataloguing the distribution of organic carbon in these soils, as the Arctic is expected to expe...