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Permafrost Soils pp 237–250Cite as

Global Warming and Dissolved Organic Carbon Release from Permafrost Soils

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Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in terrestrial compartments of permafrost terrains demonstrates changes in the amount and chemical composition as a response to the warming in high latitudes. Increased DOC flux is supported by enhanced terrestrial primary production, a shift from tundra to forest, increased DOC production due to raised microbial activity in organic topsoil, and by a release from melting permafrost. Nevertheless, degradation of permafrost barrier to deep infiltration of solutes increasing the retention time of DOC in subsoil due to sorption in deepen soil active layer will most likely result in the decreased DOC export to rivers.

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  1. V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Akademgorodok, Russia

    Anatoly S. Prokushkin & Irina V. Tokareva

  2. College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kanagawa, 2528510, Japan

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Prokushkin, A.S., Kawahigashi, M., Tokareva, I.V. (2009). Global Warming and Dissolved Organic Carbon Release from Permafrost Soils. In: Margesin, R. (eds) Permafrost Soils. Soil Biology, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69371-0_16

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