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Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

Abstract

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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