Is the subarctic landscape still a carbon sink? Evidence from a detailed catchment balance. Lundin, E. J., Klaminder, J., Giesler, R., Persson, A., Olefeldt, D., Heliasz, M., Christensen, T. R., & Karlsson, J. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(5):2015GL066970, March, 2016. 00001
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Climate warming raises the question whether high-latitude landscape still function as net carbon (C) sinks. By compiling an integrated C balance for an intensely studied subarctic catchment, we show that this catchment's C balance is not likely to be a strong current sink of C, a commonly held assumption. In fact, it is more plausible (71% probability) that the studied catchment functions as a C source (−11 ± 20 g C m−2 yr−1). Analyses of individual fluxes indicate that soil and aquatic C losses offset C sequestering in other landscape components (e.g., peatlands and aboveground forest biomass). Our results stress the importance of fully integrated catchment C balance estimates and highlight the importance of upland soils and their interaction with the aquatic network for the catchment C balance.
@article{lundin_is_2016,
	title = {Is the subarctic landscape still a carbon sink? {Evidence} from a detailed catchment balance},
	volume = {43},
	issn = {1944-8007},
	shorttitle = {Is the subarctic landscape still a carbon sink?},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL066970/abstract},
	doi = {10.1002/2015GL066970},
	abstract = {Climate warming raises the question whether high-latitude landscape still function as net carbon (C) sinks. By compiling an integrated C balance for an intensely studied subarctic catchment, we show that this catchment's C balance is not likely to be a strong current sink of C, a commonly held assumption. In fact, it is more plausible (71\% probability) that the studied catchment functions as a C source (−11 ± 20 g C m−2 yr−1). Analyses of individual fluxes indicate that soil and aquatic C losses offset C sequestering in other landscape components (e.g., peatlands and aboveground forest biomass). Our results stress the importance of fully integrated catchment C balance estimates and highlight the importance of upland soils and their interaction with the aquatic network for the catchment C balance.},
	language = {en},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2017-02-06},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	author = {Lundin, Erik J. and Klaminder, Jonatan and Giesler, Reiner and Persson, Andreas and Olefeldt, David and Heliasz, Michal and Christensen, Torben R. and Karlsson, Jan},
	month = mar,
	year = {2016},
	note = {00001},
	keywords = {\#nosource, 0428 Carbon cycling, aquatic ecosystems, carbon balance, carbon cycling, sink, source, subarctic, terrestrial ecosystems},
	pages = {2015GL066970},
}

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