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 …

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO2 efflux

JL Soong, C Castanha, CE Hicks Pries, N Ofiti… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Subsoils below 20 cm are an important reservoir in the global carbon cycle, but little is
known about their vulnerability under climate change. We measured a statistically significant …

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

EAG Schuur, AD McGuire, C Schädel, G Grosse… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Large quantities of organic carbon are stored in frozen soils (permafrost) within Arctic and
sub-Arctic regions. A warming climate can induce environmental changes that accelerate …

Nitrogen availability mediates soil carbon cycling response to climate warming: A meta‐analysis

T Bai, P Wang, Y Qiu, Y Zhang, S Hu - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate warming may induce a positive feedback through increasing soil carbon (C)
release to the atmosphere. Although warming can affect both C input to and output from soil …

Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra

C Plaza, E Pegoraro, R Bracho, G Celis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Evidence suggests that 5–15% of the vast pool of soil carbon stored in northern
permafrost ecosystems could be emitted as greenhouse gases by 2100 under the current …

Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

LJ Tranvik, JA Downing, JB Cotner… - Limnology and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We explore the role of lakes in carbon cycling and global climate, examine the mechanisms
influencing carbon pools and transformations in lakes, and discuss how the metabolism of …

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: A meta‐analysis of experimental manipulation

Z Wu, P Dijkstra, GW Koch, J Peñuelas… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2–7° C and precipitation to change
across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects on ecosystem …

Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology

FS Chapin, PA Matson, HA Mooney, PM Vitousek - 2002 - Springer
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Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

JC Svenning, B Sandel - American Journal of Botany, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Near‐future climate changes are likely to elicit major vegetation
changes. Disequilibrium dynamics, which occur when vegetation comes out of equilibrium …