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Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming
- Xue, Kai;
- M. Yuan, Mengting;
- J. Shi, Zhou;
- Qin, Yujia;
- Deng, Ye;
- Cheng, Lei;
- Wu, Liyou;
- He, Zhili;
- Van Nostrand, Joy D;
- Bracho, Rosvel;
- Natali, Susan;
- Schuur, Edward AG;
- Luo, Chengwei;
- Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T;
- Wang, Qiong;
- Cole, James R;
- Tiedje, James M;
- Luo, Yiqi;
- Zhou, Jizhong
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2940Abstract
Release of carbon previously locked in permafrost is a potentially important positive climate feedback. Now metagenomics reveal the vulnerability of active-layer soil carbon to warming-induced microbial decomposition in Alaskan tundra.
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