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Relationships between greenhouse gas production and landscape position during short-term permafrost thaw under anaerobic conditions in the Lena Delta
Mélissa Laurent
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Permafrost section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Matthias Fuchs
Permafrost section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Tanja Herbst
Permafrost section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Alexandra Runge
Permafrost section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Susanne Liebner
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Geomicrobiology,
Potsdam, Germany
University of Potsdam, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology,
Potsdam, Germany
Claire C. Treat
Permafrost section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
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In this study we investigated the effect of different parameters (temperature, landscape position) on the production of greenhouse gases during a 1-year permafrost thaw experiment. For very similar carbon and nitrogen contents, our results show a strong heterogeneity in CH4 production, as well as in microbial abundance. According to our study, these differences are mainly due to the landscape position and the hydrological conditions established as a result of the topography.
In this study we investigated the effect of different parameters (temperature, landscape...
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