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Variability In Above- And Belowground Carbon Stocks In A Siberian Larch Watershed, Elizabeth E. Webb, Kathryn Heard, Susan M. Natali, Andrew Godard Bunn, Heather D. Alexander, Logan T. Berner, Alexander Kholodov, Michael M. Loranty, John D. Schade, Valentin Spektor, Nikita Zimov
Variability In Above- And Belowground Carbon Stocks In A Siberian Larch Watershed, Elizabeth E. Webb, Kathryn Heard, Susan M. Natali, Andrew Godard Bunn, Heather D. Alexander, Logan T. Berner, Alexander Kholodov, Michael M. Loranty, John D. Schade, Valentin Spektor, Nikita Zimov
Environmental Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Permafrost soils store between 1330 and 1580Pg carbon (C), which is 3 times the amount of C in global vegetation, almost twice the amount of C in the atmosphere, and half of the global soil organic C pool. Despite the massive amount of C in permafrost, estimates of soil C storage in the high-latitude permafrost region are highly uncertain, primarily due to undersampling at all spatial scales; circumpolar soil C estimates lack sufficient continental spatial diversity, regional intensity, and replication at the field-site level. Siberian forests are particularly undersampled, yet the larch forests that dominate this region may store more …