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 …

The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests: A review

MJ Gundale, EP Axelsson, V Buness… - Global Change …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Boreal forests are frequently subjected to disturbances, including wildfire and clear‐cutting.
While these disturbances can cause soil carbon (C) losses, the long‐term accumulation …

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 …

Reassessment of growth-climate relations indicates the potential for decline across Eurasian boreal larch forests

W Li, RD Manzanedo, Y Jiang, W Ma, E Du… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Larch, a widely distributed tree in boreal Eurasia, is experiencing rapid warming across
much of its distribution. A comprehensive assessment of growth on warming is needed to …

Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern Europe's terrestrial carbon sink

K Winkler, H Yang, R Ganzenmüller, R Fuchs… - … Earth & Environment, 2023‏ - nature.com
Land-based mitigation is essential in reducing net carbon emissions. Yet, the attribution of
carbon fluxes remains highly uncertain, in particular for the forest-rich region of Eastern …

The net GHG balance and budget of the permafrost region (2000–2020) from ecosystem flux upscaling

J Ramage, MK Kuhn, AM Virkkala… - Global …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The northern permafrost region has been projected to shift from a net sink to a net source of
carbon under global warming. However, estimates of the contemporary net greenhouse gas …

Persistent net release of carbon dioxide and methane from an Alaskan lowland boreal peatland complex

ES Euskirchen, CW Edgar, ES Kane… - Global Change …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost degradation in peatlands is altering vegetation and soil properties and impacting
net carbon storage. We studied four adjacent sites in Alaska with varied permafrost regimes …

Warming and disturbances affect Arctic-boreal vegetation resilience across northwestern North America

Y Zhang, JA Wang, LT Berner, SJ Goetz… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Rapid warming and increasing disturbances in high-latitude regions have caused extensive
vegetation shifts and uncertainty in future carbon budgets. Better predictions of vegetation …

Current and Near-Term Earth-Observing Environmental Satellites, Their Missions, Characteristics, Instruments, and Applications

SL Ustin, EMP Middleton - Sensors, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Among the essential tools to address global environmental information requirements are the
Earth-Observing (EO) satellites with free and open data access. This paper reviews those …

Seasonal CO2 amplitude in northern high latitudes

Z Liu, BM Rogers, G Keppel-Aleks, M Helbig… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Global climate change is influencing the seasonal cycle amplitude of atmospheric CO2
(SCA), with the strongest increases at northern high latitudes (NHL;> 45° N). In this Review …