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Merritt R. Turetsky
Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Soil Organic Matter Concentration is a Critical Regulator of the Response of Decomposers to Soil Temperature in Alaskan Interior Boreal Forest Soils
AGU 2024
biogeosciences | 13 december 2024
Jason A. Shabaga, Catherine M. Dieleman, Ziao Zhic...
Long winters and permafrost in Alaskan boreal forests inhibits the decomposition of organic materials, promoting accrual as a surface soil organic lay...
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Did permafrost thaw contribute to the deglacial rise in greenhouse gases?
AGU 2024
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 13 december 2024
Miriam Jones, Katey M. Walter Anthony, Laura Brosi...
Understanding the carbon-climate feedback during past abrupt climate transitions is important for contextualizing future permafrost stability and asso...
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Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Gradual Versus Abrupt Permafrost Thaw Features in Interior Alaska
AGU 2024
biogeosciences | 12 december 2024
Hailey Webb, Thomas A. Douglas, Matthias Fuchs, Ja...
Permafrost underlies 24% of the land surface in the northern hemisphere and stores about 3 times the amount of carbon in earths atmosphere. Climate-in...
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Estimates of Future Carbon Emissions from Gradual Permafrost Thaw, Abrupt Thaw, and High-latitude Wildfire: Impact on Paris Agreement Temperature Goals
AGU 2024
biogeosciences | 12 december 2024
Brendan M. Rogers, Rachael Treharne, Christina Sch...
Rapid Arctic warming is thawing carbon-rich permafrost, releasing greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere and accelerating global climate change. Despite ...
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Depth-Specific Greenhouse Gas Emission Responses to Abrupt Permafrost Thaw
AGU 2024
biogeosciences | 12 december 2024
Emily Stuchiner, Hailey Webb, Matthias Fuchs, Jaso...
There is great uncertainty surrounding the permafrost carbon feedback from Arctic soils throughout the depth profile under abrupt thaw. Soil in the ac...
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High Resolution Active Layer Monitoring: UAV-Lidar Change Detection in Discontinuous Permafrost in interior Alaska.
AGU 2024
geodesy | 11 december 2024
Robert Van Alphen, Taha Sadeghi Chorsi, Jason A. S...
The active layer in permafrost terrain is the soil horizon above multi-year frozen ground that undergoes seasonal freeze-thaw cycles. Increases in act...
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Novel Disturbance Regimes Impacting Northern Peatlands: Flooding, Drought, and Zombie Fires
AGU 2024
earth and planetary surface processes | 10 december 2024
Merritt R. Turetsky, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Catherin...
Cross-scale feedbacks between ecohydrology, permafrost thaw, and wildfire will dictate the future structure and function of northern peatlands, which ...
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Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gas Budgets Suggest a Weak CO2 Sink and CH4 and N2O Sources, But Magnitudes Differ Between Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Methods
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
26 october 2024
Gustaf Hugelius, Justine Ramage, Eleanor J. Burke,...

Large stocks of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in northern permafrost soils are vulnerable to remobilization under climate change. However, there...

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