Global distribution, formation and fate of mineral‐associated soil organic matter under a changing climate: A trait‐based perspective

NW Sokol, ED Whalen, A Jilling… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organic matter (SOM) is the largest actively cycling reservoir of terrestrial carbon (C),
and the majority of SOM in Earth's mineral soils (~ 65%) is mineral‐associated organic …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Europe: from Chapters and Cross-Chapter Papers

B Bednar-Friedl, GR Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2022 - edepot.wur.nl
Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Weakening greenhouse gas sink of pristine wetlands under warming

T Bao, G Jia, X Xu - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
Pristine wetlands have high potential for mitigating climate change because of their large
carbon stocks. However, whether and where wetlands will act as a greenhouse gas sink or …

Early snowmelt and polar jet dynamics co-influence recent extreme Siberian fire seasons

RC Scholten, D Coumou, F Luo, S Veraverbeke - Science, 2022 - science.org
The summers of 2019, 2020, and 2021 experienced unprecedented fire activity in
northeastern Siberia, driven by record high spring and summer temperatures. Many of these …

Large sinuous rivers are slowing down in a warming Arctic

A Ielpi, MGA Lapôtre, A Finotello… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Arctic regions are disproportionately affected by atmospheric warming, with cascading
effects on multiple surface processes. Atmospheric warming is destabilizing permafrost …

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 …

Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate

JG Ernakovich, RA Barbato, VI Rich… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The physical and chemical changes that accompany permafrost thaw directly influence the
microbial communities that mediate the decomposition of formerly frozen organic matter …

Carbon surplus or carbon deficit under land use transformation in China?

S Li, Y Liu, G Wei, M Bi, BJ He - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
With the progression of industrialization and urbanization, terrestrial ecosystems have
experienced varying degrees of degradation in their carbon sequestration capabilities …

Northern expansion is not compensating for southern declines in North American boreal forests

R Rotbarth, EH Van Nes, M Scheffer, JU Jepsen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to shift the boreal biome northward through expansion at the
northern and contraction at the southern boundary respectively. However, biome-scale …