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Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback
Edward A. G. Schuur,A. D. McGuire,Christina Schädel,Christina Schädel,Guido Grosse,Jennifer W. Harden,Daniel J. Hayes,Gustaf Hugelius,Charles D. Koven,Peter Kuhry,David M. Lawrence,Susan M. Natali,David Olefeldt,Vladimir E. Romanovsky,Kevin Schaefer,Merritt R. Turetsky,Claire C. Treat,Jorien E. Vonk +17 more
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In this paper, the authors find that current evidence suggests a gradual and prolonged release of greenhouse gas emissions in a warming climate and present a research strategy with which to target poorly understood aspects of permafrost carbon dynamics.Abstract:
Large quantities of organic carbon are stored in frozen soils (permafrost) within Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. A warming climate can induce environmental changes that accelerate the microbial breakdown of organic carbon and the release of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane. This feedback can accelerate climate change, but the magnitude and timing of greenhouse gas emission from these regions and their impact on climate change remain uncertain. Here we find that current evidence suggests a gradual and prolonged release of greenhouse gas emissions in a warming climate and present a research strategy with which to target poorly understood aspects of permafrost carbon dynamics.read more
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The global methane budget 2000–2017
Marielle Saunois,Ann R. Stavert,Ben Poulter,Philippe Bousquet,Josep G. Canadell,Robert B. Jackson,Peter A. Raymond,Edward J. Dlugokencky,Sander Houweling,Sander Houweling,Prabir K. Patra,Prabir K. Patra,Philippe Ciais,Vivek K. Arora,David Bastviken,Peter Bergamaschi,Donald R. Blake,Gordon Brailsford,Lori Bruhwiler,Kimberly M. Carlson,Mark Carrol,Simona Castaldi,Naveen Chandra,Cyril Crevoisier,Patrick M. Crill,Kristofer R. Covey,Charles L. Curry,Giuseppe Etiope,Giuseppe Etiope,Christian Frankenberg,Nicola Gedney,Michaela I. Hegglin,Lena Höglund-Isaksson,Gustaf Hugelius,Misa Ishizawa,Akihiko Ito,Greet Janssens-Maenhout,Katherine M. Jensen,Fortunat Joos,Thomas Kleinen,Paul B. Krummel,Ray L. Langenfelds,Goulven Gildas Laruelle,Licheng Liu,Toshinobu Machida,Shamil Maksyutov,Kyle C. McDonald,Joe McNorton,Paul A. Miller,Joe R. Melton,Isamu Morino,Jurek Müller,Fabiola Murguia-Flores,Vaishali Naik,Yosuke Niwa,Sergio Noce,Simon O'Doherty,Robert J. Parker,Changhui Peng,Shushi Peng,Glen P. Peters,Catherine Prigent,Ronald G. Prinn,Michel Ramonet,Pierre Regnier,William J. Riley,Judith A. Rosentreter,Arjo Segers,Isobel J. Simpson,Hao Shi,Steven J. Smith,L. Paul Steele,Brett F. Thornton,Hanqin Tian,Yasunori Tohjima,Francesco N. Tubiello,Aki Tsuruta,Nicolas Viovy,Apostolos Voulgarakis,Apostolos Voulgarakis,Thomas Weber,Michiel van Weele,Guido R. van der Werf,Ray F. Weiss,Doug Worthy,Debra Wunch,Yi Yin,Yi Yin,Yukio Yoshida,Weiya Zhang,Zhen Zhang,Yuanhong Zhao,Bo Zheng,Qing Zhu,Qiuan Zhu,Qianlai Zhuang +95 more
TL;DR: The second version of the living review paper dedicated to the decadal methane budget, integrating results of top-down studies (atmospheric observations within an atmospheric inverse-modeling framework) and bottom-up estimates (including process-based models for estimating land surface emissions and atmospheric chemistry, inventories of anthropogenic emissions, and data-driven extrapolations) as discussed by the authors.
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Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change
Ricardo Cavicchioli,William J. Ripple,Kenneth N. Timmis,Farooq Azam,Lars R. Bakken,Matthew Baylis,Michael J. Behrenfeld,Antje Boetius,Philip W. Boyd,Aimée T. Classen,Thomas W. Crowther,Roberto Danovaro,Christine M. Foreman,Jef Huisman,David A. Hutchins,Janet K. Jansson,David M. Karl,Britt Koskella,David B. Mark Welch,Jennifer B. H. Martiny,Mary Ann Moran,Victoria J. Orphan,David S. Reay,Justin V. Remais,Virginia I. Rich,Brajesh K. Singh,Lisa Y. Stein,Frank J. Stewart,Matthew B. Sullivan,Madeleine J. H. van Oppen,Madeleine J. H. van Oppen,Scott C. Weaver,Eric A. Webb,Nicole S. Webster,Nicole S. Webster +34 more
TL;DR: This Consensus Statement documents the central role and global importance of microorganisms in climate change biology and puts humanity on notice that the impact of climate change will depend heavily on responses of micro organisms, which are essential for achieving an environmentally sustainable future.
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Permafrost is warming at a global scale
Boris K. Biskaborn,Sharon L. Smith,Jeannette Noetzli,Heidrun Matthes,Gonçalo Vieira,Dmitry A. Streletskiy,Philippe Schoeneich,Vladimir E. Romanovsky,Antoni G. Lewkowicz,Andrey Abramov,Michel Allard,Julia Boike,Julia Boike,William L. Cable,Hanne H. Christiansen,Reynald Delaloye,Bernhard Diekmann,Bernhard Diekmann,Dmitry Drozdov,Bernd Etzelmüller,Guido Grosse,Guido Grosse,Mauro Guglielmin,Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen,Ketil Isaksen,Mamoru Ishikawa,Margareta Johansson,Halldor Johannsson,Anseok Joo,Dmitry Kaverin,Alexander Kholodov,Pavel Konstantinov,Tim Kröger,Christophe Lambiel,Jean-Pierre Lanckman,Dongliang Luo,G. V. Malkova,Ian Meiklejohn,Natalia Moskalenko,Marc Oliva,Marcia Phillips,Miguel Ramos,A. Britta K. Sannel,Dmitrii Sergeev,Cathy Seybold,Pavel Skryabin,Alexander N. Vasiliev,Qingbai Wu,Kenji Yoshikawa,Mikhail N. Zheleznyak,Hugues Lantuit,Hugues Lantuit +51 more
TL;DR: Climate change strongly impacts regions in high latitudes and altitudes that store high amounts of carbon in yet frozen ground, and the authors show that the consequence of these changes is global warming of permafrost at depths greater than 10 m in the Northern Hemisphere, in mountains, and in Antarctica.
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Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming
Thomas W. Crowther,Katherine Todd-Brown,Clara W. Rowe,William R. Wieder,Joanna C. Carey,Megan B. Machmuller,L. Basten Snoek,Shibo Fang,Guangsheng Zhou,Steven D. Allison,John M. Blair,Scott D. Bridgham,Andrew J. Burton,Yolima Carrillo,Peter B. Reich,Peter B. Reich,James S. Clark,Aimée T. Classen,Feike A. Dijkstra,Bo Elberling,Bridget A. Emmett,Marc Estiarte,Serita D. Frey,Ji-Xun Guo,John Harte,Lifen Jiang,Bart R. Johnson,György Kröel-Dulay,Klaus Steenberg Larsen,Hjalmar Laudon,Jocelyn M. Lavallee,Jocelyn M. Lavallee,Yiqi Luo,Yiqi Luo,Massimo Lupascu,Linna Ma,Sven Marhan,Anders Michelsen,Jacqueline E. Mohan,Shuli Niu,Elise Pendall,Josep Peñuelas,Laurel Pfeifer-Meister,Christian Poll,Sabine Reinsch,Lorien L. Reynolds,Inger Kappel Schmidt,Seeta A. Sistla,Noah W. Sokol,Pamela H. Templer,Kathleen K. Treseder,Jeffrey M. Welker,Mark A. Bradford +52 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive analysis of warming-induced changes in soil carbon stocks by assembling data from 49 field experiments located across North America, Europe and Asia, and provide estimates of soil carbon sensitivity to warming that may help to constrain Earth system model projections.
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Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements
Dmitry Yumashev,Chris Hope,Kevin Schaefer,Kathrin Riemann-Campe,Fernando Iglesias-Suarez,Fernando Iglesias-Suarez,Elchin Jafarov,Elchin Jafarov,Eleanor J. Burke,Paul Young,Yasin Elshorbany,Gail Whiteman +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored nonlinear transitions in the Arctic feedbacks and their subsequent impacts on the global climate and economy under the Paris Agreement scenarios, and found an important contribution to warming which leads to additional economic losses from climate change.
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