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Increased nitrous oxide emissions from Arctic peatlands after permafrost thaw

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 2017
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Title
Increased nitrous oxide emissions from Arctic peatlands after permafrost thaw
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 2017
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1702902114
Pubmed ID
Authors

Carolina Voigt, Maija E. Marushchak, Richard E. Lamprecht, Marcin Jackowicz-Korczyński, Amelie Lindgren, Mikhail Mastepanov, Lars Granlund, Torben R. Christensen, Teemu Tahvanainen, Pertti J. Martikainen, Christina Biasi

Abstract

Permafrost in the Arctic is thawing, exposing large carbon and nitrogen stocks for decomposition. Gaseous carbon release from Arctic soils due to permafrost thawing is known to be substantial, but growing evidence suggests that Arctic soils may also be relevant sources of nitrous oxide (N2O). Here we show that N2O emissions from subarctic peatlands increase as the permafrost thaws. In our study, the highest postthaw emissions occurred from bare peat surfaces, a typical landform in permafrost peatlands, where permafrost thaw caused a fivefold increase in emissions (0.56 ± 0.11 vs. 2.81 ± 0.6 mg N2O m(-2) d(-1)). These emission rates match those from tropical forest soils, the world's largest natural terrestrial N2O source. The presence of vegetation, known to limit N2O emissions in tundra, did decrease (by ∼90%) but did not prevent thaw-induced N2O release, whereas waterlogged conditions suppressed the emissions. We show that regions with high probability for N2O emissions cover one-fourth of the Arctic. Our results imply that the Arctic N2O budget will depend strongly on moisture changes, and that a gradual deepening of the active layer will create a strong noncarbon climate change feedback.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 212 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 46 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 20%
Student > Master 22 10%
Student > Bachelor 16 7%
Other 12 6%
Other 29 13%
Unknown 46 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 67 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39 18%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 34 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 3%
Chemistry 6 3%
Other 8 4%
Unknown 55 26%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 701. 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 11 October 2021.
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