Сибирский федеральный университет

Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2015

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1002/2015JG002999

Ключевые слова: permafrost, phytomass carbon, remote sensing, soil organic carbon, taiga, tundra

Аннотация: Permafrost-affected ecosystems are important components in the global carbon (C) cycle that, despite being vulnerable to disturbances under climate change, remain poorly understood. This study investigates ecosystem carbon storage in two contrasting continuous permafrost areas of NE and East Siberia. Detailed partitioning of soil organic carbon (SOC) and phytomass carbon (PC) is analyzed for one tundra (Kytalyk) and one taiga (Spasskaya Pad/Neleger) study area. In total, 57 individual field sites (24 and 33 in the respective areas) have been sampled for PC and SOC, including the upper permafrost. Landscape partitioning of ecosystem C storage was derived from thematic upscaling of field observations using a land cover classification from very high resolution (2 ? m) satellite imagery. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling was used to explore patterns in C distribution. In both environments the ecosystem C is mostly stored in the soil (?86%). At the landscape scale C stocks are primarily controlled by the presence of thermokarst depressions (alases). In the tundra landscape, site-scale variability of C is controlled by periglacial geomorphological features, while in the taiga, local differences in catenary position, soil texture, and forest successions are more important. Very high resolution remote sensing is highly beneficial to the quantification of C storage. Detailed knowledge of ecosystem C storage and ground ice distribution is needed to predict permafrost landscape vulnerability to projected climatic changes. We argue that vegetation dynamics are unlikely to offset mineralization of thawed permafrost C and that landscape-scale reworking of SOC represents the largest potential changes to C cycling. Key Points Detailed partitioning of ecosystem C storage in two permafrost environments In Russian tundra and taiga, C is almost entirely stored in the soil (over 86%) Landscape-scale geomorphic dynamics control present and future C cycling. ©2015. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.

Журнал: Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 120, Is. 10

Номера страниц: 1973-1994

• Siewert M.B. (Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Hanisch J. (Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, D?partement de G?ographie, Universit? de Montr?al, Montreal, QC, Canada)
• Weiss N. (Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Kuhry P. (Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Maximov T.C. (Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Sakha, Russian Federation, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russian Federation)
• Hugelius G. (Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)

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