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

K. M. Walter Anthony (), S. A. Zimov, G. Grosse, M. C. Jones, P. M. Anthony, F. S. Chapin, J. C. Finlay, M. C. Mack, S. Davydov, P. Frenzel and S. Frolking
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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
M. C. Jones: Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska
P. M. Anthony: Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska
F. S. Chapin: 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

Nature, 2014, vol. 511, issue 7510, 452-456

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.

Date: 2014
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