First pan-Arctic assessment of dissolved organic carbon in lakes of the permafrost region

Stolpmann, Lydia; Coch, Caroline; Morgenstern, Anne; Boike, Julia; Fritz, Michael; Herzschuh, Ulrike; Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen; Dvornikov, Yury; Heim, Birgit; Lenz, Josefine; Larsen, Amy; Walter Anthony, Katey; Jones, Benjamin; Frey, Karen; Grosse, Guido

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3917-2021

Articles | Volume 18, issue 12

Biogeosciences, 18, 3917–3936, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3917-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Biogeosciences, 18, 3917–3936, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3917-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 12

Research article 30 Jun 2021

Research article | 30 Jun 2021

First pan-Arctic assessment of dissolved organic carbon in lakes of the permafrost region

Lydia Stolpmann et al.

Data sets

Permafrost-Region Lake-DOC version1 Database (PeRL-DOCv1) L. Stolpmann, C. Coch, A. Morgenstern, J. Boike, M. Fritz, U. Herzschuh, K. Stoof-Leichsenring, Y. Dvornikov, B. Heim, J. Lenz, A. Larsen, K. Walter Anthony, B. Jones, K. Frey, and G. Grosse https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932262

Short summary

Our new database summarizes DOC concentrations of 2167 water samples from 1833 lakes in permafrost regions across the Arctic to provide insights into linkages between DOC and environment. We found increasing lake DOC concentration with decreasing permafrost extent and higher DOC concentrations in boreal permafrost sites compared to tundra sites. Our study shows that DOC concentration depends on the environmental properties of a lake, especially permafrost extent, ecoregion, and vegetation.