Thermokarst dynamics and soil organic matter characteristics controlling initial carbon release from permafrost soils in the Siberian Yedoma region

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• 作者：Niels Weiss^a ; ^{niels.weiss@natgeo.su.se" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Daan Blok^b ; Bo Elberling^b ; Gustaf Hugelius^a ; Christian Juncher Jø ; rgensen^b ; Matthias Benjamin Siewert^a ; Peter Kuhry^a
• 关键词：Permafrost ; Yedoma ; Thermokarst ; Carbon ; SOM decomposition ; Soil incubation
• 刊名：Sedimentary Geology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：1 July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：340
• 期：Complete
• 页码：38-48
• 全文大小：2996 K

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This study relates soil organic matter (SOM) characteristics to initial soil incubation carbon release from upper permafrost samples in Yedoma region soils of northeastern Siberia, Russia. Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) content, carbon to nitrogen ratios (C:N), δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values show clear trends that correspond with SOM age and degree of decomposition. Incubation results indicate that older and more decomposed soil material shows higher C respiration rates per unit incubated C than younger and less decomposed samples with higher C content. This is important as undecomposed material is often assumed to be more reactive upon thawing. Large stocks of SOM and their potential decomposability, in combination with complex landscape dynamics that include one or more events of Holocene thaw in most of the landscape, are of consequence for potential greenhouse gas release from permafrost soils in the Yedoma region.