Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
08 2019
Historique:
received: 16 10 2018
accepted: 03 07 2019
entrez: 23 8 2019
pubmed: 23 8 2019
medline: 27 3 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Boreal forest fires emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere primarily through the combustion of soil organic matter

Identifiants

pubmed: 31435055
doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1474-y
pii: 10.1038/s41586-019-1474-y
doi:

Substances chimiques

Soil 0
Carbon 7440-44-0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

520-523

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

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Auteurs

Xanthe J Walker (XJ)

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. xanthe.walker@gmail.com.

Jennifer L Baltzer (JL)

Biology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Steven G Cumming (SG)

Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Nicola J Day (NJ)

Biology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Christopher Ebert (C)

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

Scott Goetz (S)

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems (SICCS), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.

Jill F Johnstone (JF)

Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.

Stefano Potter (S)

Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.

Brendan M Rogers (BM)

Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.

Edward A G Schuur (EAG)

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

Merritt R Turetsky (MR)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.

Michelle C Mack (MC)

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

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