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Widespread release of old carbon across the Siberian Arctic echoed by its large rivers
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2011 (Engelska)Ingår i: Biogeosciences, ISSN 1726-4170, E-ISSN 1726-4189, Vol. 8, nr 6, s. 1737-1743Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
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Over decadal-centennial timescales, only a few mechanisms in the carbon-climate system could cause a massive net redistribution of carbon from land and ocean systems to the atmosphere in response to climate warming. The largest such climate-vulnerable carbon pool is the old organic carbon (OC) stored in Arctic permafrost (perennially frozen) soils. Climate warming, both predicted and now observed to be the strongest globally in the Eurasian Arctic and Alaska, causes thaw-release of old permafrost carbon from local tundra sites. However, a central challenge for the assessment of the general vulnerability of this old OC pool is to deduce any signal integrating its release over larger scales. Here we examine radiocarbon measurements of molecular soil markers exported by the five Great Russian-Arctic Rivers (Ob, Yenisey, Lena, Indigirka and Kolyma), employed as natural integrators of carbon release processes in their watersheds. The signals held in estuarine surface sediments revealed that average radiocarbon ages of n-alkanes increased east-to-west from 6400 yr BP in Kolyma to 11 400 yr BP in Ob. This is consistent with westwards trends of both warmer climate and more degraded organic matter as indicated by the ratio of high molecular weight (HMW) n-alkanoic acids to HMW n-alkanes. The dynamics of Siberian permafrost can thus be probed via the molecular-radiocarbon signal as carried by Arctic rivers. Old permafrost carbon is at present vulnerable to mobilization over continental scales. Climate-induced changes in the radiocarbon fingerprint of released permafrost carbon will likely depend on changes in both permafrost coverage and Arctic soil hydraulics.

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2011. Vol. 8, nr 6, s. 1737-1743
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URN: urn:nbn:se:polar:diva-3318DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-1737-2011OAI: oai:DiVA.org:polar-3318DiVA, id: diva2:1054725
Tillgänglig från: 2016-12-09 Skapad: 2016-12-09 Senast uppdaterad: 2017-11-29

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