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Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, October 2016
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Title
Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes
Published in
Nature Communications, October 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms13043
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Authors

D. Olefeldt, S. Goswami, G. Grosse, D. Hayes, G. Hugelius, P. Kuhry, A. D. McGuire, V. E. Romanovsky, A.B.K. Sannel, E.A.G. Schuur, M. R. Turetsky

Abstract

Thermokarst is the process whereby the thawing of ice-rich permafrost ground causes land subsidence, resulting in development of distinctive landforms. Accelerated thermokarst due to climate change will damage infrastructure, but also impact hydrology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Here, we present a circumpolar assessment of the distribution of thermokarst landscapes, defined as landscapes comprised of current thermokarst landforms and areas susceptible to future thermokarst development. At 3.6 × 10(6) km(2), thermokarst landscapes are estimated to cover ∼20% of the northern permafrost region, with approximately equal contributions from three landscape types where characteristic wetland, lake and hillslope thermokarst landforms occur. We estimate that approximately half of the below-ground organic carbon within the study region is stored in thermokarst landscapes. Our results highlight the importance of explicitly considering thermokarst when assessing impacts of climate change, including future landscape greenhouse gas emissions, and provide a means for assessing such impacts at the circumpolar scale.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 <1%
Pakistan 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 464 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 97 21%
Researcher 88 19%
Student > Master 65 14%
Student > Bachelor 34 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 4%
Other 62 13%
Unknown 107 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 121 26%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 119 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 10%
Engineering 8 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 1%
Other 30 6%
Unknown 143 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 92. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2022.
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