The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau

C Mu, BW Abbott, AJ Norris, M Mu, C Fan, X Chen… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Permafrost regions at high latitudes and altitudes store about half of the Earth's soil organic
carbon (SOC). These areas are also some of the most intensely affected by anthropogenic …

The ecology of river ice

A Thellman, KJ Jankowski, B Hayden… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the world's rivers are ice‐covered during winter months but increasing evidence
indicates that the extent of river ice will shift substantially as winters warm. However, our …

Emerging dominance of summer rainfall driving High Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity

CR Beel, JK Heslop, JF Orwin, MA Pope… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hydrological transformations induced by climate warming are causing Arctic annual fluvial
energy to shift from skewed (snowmelt-dominated) to multimodal (snowmelt-and rainfall …

Arctic concentration–discharge relationships for dissolved organic carbon and nitrate vary with landscape and season

AJ Shogren, JP Zarnetske, BW Abbott… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is intensifying the Arctic hydrologic cycle, potentially accelerating the
release of carbon and nutrients from permafrost landscapes to rivers. However, there are …

Tundra wildfire triggers sustained lateral nutrient loss in Alaskan Arctic

BW Abbott, AV Rocha, A Shogren… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is creating widespread ecosystem disturbance across the permafrost zone,
including a rapid increase in the extent and severity of tundra wildfire. The expansion of this …

Seasonal changes in hydrology and permafrost degradation control mineral element‐bound DOC transport from permafrost soils to streams

C Hirst, E Mauclet, A Monhonval… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral elements bind to dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in permafrost soils, and this may
contribute to the stabilization or the degradation of organic carbon along the soil to river …

Long‐Term Changes in Concentration and Yield of Riverine Dissolved Silicon From the Poles to the Tropics

KJ Jankowski, K Johnson, L Sethna… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Riverine exports of silicon (Si) influence global carbon cycling through the growth of marine
diatoms, which account for∼ 25% of global primary production. Climate change will likely …

We must stop fossil fuel emissions to protect permafrost ecosystems

BW Abbott, M Brown, JC Carey, J Ernakovich… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is an existential threat to the vast global permafrost domain. The diverse
human cultures, ecological communities, and biogeochemical cycles of this tenth of the …

Dynamic changes in size‐fractionated dissolved organic matter composition in a seasonally ice‐covered Arctic River

H Lin, H Xu, Y Cai, C Belzile… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic rivers are sensitive to climate and environmental change, but the biogeochemical
response remains poorly understood. Monthly size‐fractionated dissolved organic matter …

Small watersheds may play a disproportionate role in arctic land-ocean fluxes

JE Vonk, NJ Speetjens, AE Poste - nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
While over 99% of coastal arctic rivers drain small catchments, future projections of land-
ocean fluxes are based on data from large rivers. We encourage inclusion of and increased …