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 …

Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation

KR Miner, J D'Andrilli, R Mackelprang… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
The Arctic cryosphere is collapsing, posing overlapping environmental risks. In particular,
thawing permafrost threatens to release biological, chemical and radioactive materials that …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

MR Turetsky, BW Abbott, MC Jones, KW Anthony… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The permafrost zone is expected to be a substantial carbon source to the atmosphere, yet
large-scale models currently only simulate gradual changes in seasonally thawed soil …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services (chapter 2)

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems

A Goldstein, WR Turner, SA Spawn… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires rapid decarbonization and improved
ecosystem stewardship. To achieve the latter, ecosystems should be prioritized by …

From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

SB Rumpf, M Gravey, O Brönnimann, M Luoto… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Mountains are hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but they are warming about
twice as fast as the global average. Climate change may reduce alpine snow cover and …

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 …

Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

AM Virkkala, J Aalto, BM Rogers… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The regional variability in tundra and boreal carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes can be high,
complicating efforts to quantify sink‐source patterns across the entire region. Statistical …

Global change‐driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition: Implications for food webs of northern lakes

IF Creed, AK Bergström, CG Trick… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Northern ecosystems are experiencing some of the most dramatic impacts of global change
on Earth. Rising temperatures, hydrological intensification, changes in atmospheric acid …