Articles | Volume 13, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2003-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2003-2016
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06 Apr 2016
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Ideas and perspectives: Holocene thermokarst sediments of the Yedoma permafrost region do not increase the northern peatland carbon pool

Gustaf Hugelius, Peter Kuhry, and Charles Tarnocai

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (19 Feb 2016) by Richard Conant
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We investigate the properties of soils and sediments in a particular and ancient Siberian permafrost landscape. We critically examine statements from a recent study that specific permafrost landforms affected by thawed permafrost (alases) in this region contain very large quantities of peat that previous studies had failed to include because of data set biases. We conclude that there is no evidence to suggest biases in existing data sets or that alas deposits increase the northern peatland pool.
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