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A shift of thermokarst lakes from carbon sources to sinks during the Holocene epoch

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  • K. M. Walter Anthony

    (Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska)

  • S. A. Zimov

    (Northeast Scientific Station, Pacific Institute for Geography, Far-East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Cherskii 678830, Russia)

  • G. Grosse

    (Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska
    Present address: Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam 14473, Germany.)

  • M. C. Jones

    (Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska
    US Geological Survey)

  • P. M. Anthony

    (Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska)

  • F. S. Chapin III

    (Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska)

  • J. C. Finlay

    (Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota)

  • M. C. Mack

    (University of Florida)

  • S. Davydov

    (Northeast Scientific Station, Pacific Institute for Geography, Far-East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Cherskii 678830, Russia)

  • P. Frenzel

    (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 35043, Germany)

  • S. Frolking

    (Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire)

Abstract

Observations and modelling show that the deep thermokarst lakes that formed in Siberia and Alaska when the permafrost warmed in the Holocene epoch changed from climate-warming methane sources to climate-cooling carbon sinks about 5,000 years ago.

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  • K. M. Walter Anthony & S. A. Zimov & G. Grosse & M. C. Jones & P. M. Anthony & F. S. Chapin III & J. C. Finlay & M. C. Mack & S. Davydov & P. Frenzel & S. Frolking, 2014. "A shift of thermokarst lakes from carbon sources to sinks during the Holocene epoch," Nature, Nature, vol. 511(7510), pages 452-456, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:511:y:2014:i:7510:d:10.1038_nature13560
    DOI: 10.1038/nature13560
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