Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

Boreal forest fires emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere primarily through the combustion of soil organic matter 1 – 3 . During each fire, a portion of this soil beneath the burned layer can escape combustion, leading to a net accumulation of carbon in forests over multiple fire events 4...

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Published in:	Nature (London) Vol. 572; no. 7770; pp. 520 - 523
Main Authors:	Walker, Xanthe J., Baltzer, Jennifer L., Cumming, Steven G., Day, Nicola J., Ebert, Christopher, Goetz, Scott, Johnstone, Jill F., Potter, Stefano, Rogers, Brendan M., Schuur, Edward A. G., Turetsky, Merritt R., Mack, Michelle C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.08.2019 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	704/158/2445 704/158/2449 704/158/2454 704/158/2465 704/47/4113 Accumulation Age Analysis Atmosphere Atmosphere - chemistry Boreal forests Burning Carbon Carbon - analysis Carbon cycle Carbon Sequestration Carbon sinks Chemical properties Climate change Combustion Drying Ecosystems Emissions Environmental aspects Feedback Forecasts and trends Forest & brush fires Forest fires Forest soils Forests Global warming Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratories Letter multidisciplinary Organic matter Radiocarbon dating Radiometric dating Science Science (multidisciplinary) Soil - chemistry Soil layers Soil organic matter Soils Taiga Taigas Wildfires Wildfires - statistics & numerical data Canada United States Northwest Territories Canada
ISSN:	0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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