Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic

KR Miner, MR Turetsky, E Malina, A Bartsch… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic permafrost stores nearly 1,700 billion metric tons of frozen and thawing carbon.
Anthropogenic warming threatens to release an unknown quantity of this carbon to the …

The global methane budget 2000–2017

M Saunois, AR Stavert, B Poulter… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
Understanding and quantifying the global methane (CH 4) budget is important for assessing
realistic pathways to mitigate climate change. Atmospheric emissions and concentrations of …

Boreal–Arctic wetland methane emissions modulated by warming and vegetation activity

K Yuan, F Li, G McNicol, M Chen, A Hoyt… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Wetland methane (CH4) emissions over the Boreal–Arctic region are vulnerable to climate
change and linked to climate feedbacks, yet understanding of their long-term dynamics …

Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

AM Virkkala, J Aalto, BM Rogers… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The regional variability in tundra and boreal carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes can be high,
complicating efforts to quantify sink‐source patterns across the entire region. Statistical …

Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration

C Voigt, AM Virkkala, G Hould Gosselin… - Nature climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Arctic wetlands are known methane (CH4) emitters but recent studies suggest that the Arctic
CH4 sink strength may be underestimated. Here we explore the capacity of well-drained …

Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales

SH Knox, S Bansal, G McNicol, K Schafer… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While wetlands are the largest natural source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, they
represent a large source of uncertainty in the global CH4 budget due to the complex …

Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high‐latitude net ecosystem carbon budget

JD Watts, M Farina, JS Kimball, LD Schiferl… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic‐boreal landscapes are experiencing profound warming, along with changes in
ecosystem moisture status and disturbance from fire. This region is of global importance in …

FLUXNET-CH 4 Synthesis Activity: Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

SH Knox, RB Jackson, B Poulter… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper describes the formation of, and initial results for, a new FLUXNET coordination
network for ecosystem-scale methane (CH 4) measurements at 60 sites globally, organized …

Permafrost carbon: Progress on understanding stocks and fluxes across northern terrestrial ecosystems

CC Treat, AM Virkkala, E Burke… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Significant progress in permafrost carbon science made over the past decades include the
identification of vast permafrost carbon stocks, the development of new pan‐Arctic …

Upscaling wetland methane emissions from the FLUXNET‐CH4 eddy covariance network (UpCH4 v1. 0): Model development, network assessment, and budget …

G McNicol, E Fluet‐Chouinard, Z Ouyang… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Wetlands are responsible for 20%–31% of global methane (CH4) emissions and
account for a large source of uncertainty in the global CH4 budget. Data‐driven upscaling of …