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Link
Permafrost Carbon and Climate Change
Date
Resource Type
Article
Region
Arctic
Grade
High school and Up
Permission
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Organization or Publication
http://www.usda.gov/fundinglapse.htm?
Expeditions
Carbon Balance in Warming and Drying Tundra 2013
Author(s)
Edward A. G. Schuur, James Bockheim, Josep G. Canadell, Eugenie Euskirchen, Christopher B. Field, Sergey V. Goryachkin, Stefen Hagemann, Peter Kuhry, Peter M. Lafleur, Hanna Lee, Galina Mazhitova. Frederick E. Nelson. Annette Rinke, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Nikolay Shiklomanov, Charles Tarnocai, Sergey Venensky, Jason G. Vogel, and Sergei A. Zimov
Related Members
Ted Schuur
Topic
Earth Science
Physical Science
Environmental Studies
Polar Science

This scientific article, focuses on one of the largest pools of global carbon that is, the organic C stored in permafrost (perennially frozen) ground, and on the vulnerability to change under an increasingly warmer climate.

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