Permafrost and climate change: carbon cycle feedbacks from the warming Arctic

EAG Schuur, BW Abbott, R Commane… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Rapid Arctic environmental change affects the entire Earth system as thawing permafrost
ecosystems release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding how much …

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 …

Soil microbiome engineering for sustainability in a changing environment

JK Jansson, R McClure, RG Egbert - Nature Biotechnology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Recent advances in microbial ecology and synthetic biology have the potential to mitigate
damage caused by anthropogenic activities that are deleteriously impacting Earth's soil …

Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures

A Descals, DLA Gaveau, A Verger, D Sheil, D Naito… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Arctic fires can release large amounts of carbon from permafrost peatlands. Satellite
observations reveal that fires burned~ 4.7 million hectares in 2019 and 2020, accounting for …

Decadal increases in carbon uptake offset by respiratory losses across northern permafrost ecosystems

CR See, AM Virkkala, SM Natali, BM Rogers… - Nature Climate …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Tundra and boreal ecosystems encompass the northern circumpolar permafrost region and
are experiencing rapid environmental change with important implications for the global …

Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tip** elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tip** elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Extratropical forests increasingly at risk due to lightning fires

TAJ Janssen, MW Jones, D Finney… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Fires can be ignited by people or by natural causes, which are almost exclusively lightning
strikes. Discriminating between lightning and anthropogenic fires is paramount when …

Siberian taiga and tundra fire regimes from 2001–2020

AC Talucci, MM Loranty… - Environmental Research …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Circum-boreal and-tundra systems are crucial carbon pools that are experiencing amplified
warming and are at risk of increasing wildfire activity. Changes in wildfire activity have broad …

Earth system models must include permafrost carbon processes

C Schädel, BM Rogers, DM Lawrence… - Nature Climate …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Accurate representation of permafrost carbon emissions is crucial for climate projections, yet
current Earth system models inadequately represent permafrost carbon. Sustained funding …