Can-Peat Metadata Record
Title: Aged soils contribute little to contemporary carbon cycling downstream of thawing permafrost peatlands
Citation: Tanentzap, AJ. (2021). Aged soils contribute little to contemporary carbon cycling downstream of thawing permafrost peatlands. GitHub. https://github.com/atanzap/agedcarbon
Study Site: Scotty Creek and Notawohka Creek, Northwest Territories
Purpose: Vast stores of millennial-aged soil carbon (MSC) in permafrost peatlands risk leaching into the contemporary carbon cycle after thaw caused by climate warming or increased wildfire activity. Here we tracked the export and downstream fate of MSC from two peatland-dominated catchments in subarctic Canada, one of which was recently affected by wildfire.
Abstract: Raw data and R code to perform the analyses for the publication "Aged soils contribute little to contemporary carbon cycling downstream of thawing permafrost peatlands"
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Further Info: Tanentzap AJ, Burd K, Kuhn M, Estop-Aragonés C, Tank SE, Olefeldt D. 2021. Aged soils contribute little to contemporary carbon cycling downstream of thawing permafrost peatlands. Global Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15756
Status: Complete
Keywords:
soil carbon,
wildfire,
permafrost,
dissolved organic carbon,
Geographical coordinates: North: 61.30, South: 61.13 East: -120.28 West: -121.30
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2013-07-01, End
Date: 2017-10-31
