Vast amounts of carbon are locked into soils at northern high latitudes. The vexed question of how these ecosystems will respond to global warming is addressed by a long-term experiment in the Arctic.
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Loya, W., Grogan, P. Carbon conundrum on the tundra. Nature 431, 406–408 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/431406a
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