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Sensitivity of Boreal Forest Carbon Balance to Soil Thaw

Overview of attention for article published in Science, January 1998
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Title
Sensitivity of Boreal Forest Carbon Balance to Soil Thaw
Published in
Science, January 1998
DOI 10.1126/science.279.5348.214
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Authors

M. L. Goulden, S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Harden, S. E. Trumbore, P. M. Crill, S. T. Gower, T. Fries, B. C. Daube, S.-M. Fan, D. J. Sutton, A. Bazzaz, J. W. Munger

Abstract

We used eddy covariance; gas-exchange chambers; radiocarbon analysis; wood, moss, and soil inventories; and laboratory incubations to measure the carbon balance of a 120-year-old black spruce forest in Manitoba, Canada. The site lost 0.3 +/- 0.5 metric ton of carbon per hectare per year (ton C ha-1 year-1) from 1994 to 1997, with a gain of 0.6 +/- 0.2 ton C ha-1 year-1 in moss and wood offset by a loss of 0.8 +/- 0.5 ton C ha-1 year-1 from the soil. The soil remained frozen most of the year, and the decomposition of organic matter in the soil increased 10-fold upon thawing. The stability of the soil carbon pool ( approximately 150 tons C ha-1) appears sensitive to the depth and duration of thaw, and climatic changes that promote thaw are likely to cause a net efflux of carbon dioxide from the site.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 14 3%
France 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Other 5 1%
Unknown 370 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 93 23%
Researcher 90 22%
Student > Master 50 12%
Professor 29 7%
Student > Bachelor 26 6%
Other 72 18%
Unknown 41 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 132 33%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 107 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 81 20%
Engineering 6 1%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 1%
Other 9 2%
Unknown 61 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 22 November 2023.
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#2,457,474
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Outputs from Science
#29,880
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#2,742
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#36
of 217 outputs
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