Northern Permafrost Region Soil Carbon Dynamics since the Last Glacial Maximum: a terrestrial component in the glacial to interglacial carbon cycle

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Northern Permafrost Region Soil Carbon Dynamics since the Last Glacial Maximum : a terrestrial component in the glacial to interglacial carbon cycle

Lindgren, Amelie, 1987- (author): Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi

Hugelius, Gustaf, Dr. (thesis advisor): Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi

Kuhry, Peter, Professor (thesis advisor): Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi

Joos, Fortunat, Professor (opponent): Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland

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ISBN 9789179112349
Stockholm : Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 2020
English 50 s.

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At the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), after ~100,000 years of relatively cold temperatures and progressively lower atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, CO2 levels reached ~180 ppm, which is less than half of what we see today in a much warmer world (~400 ppm). Although much of this increase since the LGM is due to human-induced emissions, about 100 ppm of this increase can be attributed to natural variations seen over glacial to interglacial cycles. The sources for this natural CO2 rise remain unclear despite considerable efforts to constrain its origin. This thesis attempts to describe and quantify the role of soil carbon in this context, with emphasis on the permafrost hypothesis, which states that a shift from glacial to interglacial conditions released permafrost soil carbon to the atmosphere during the deglaciation. We present empirical estimates of the change in the Northern permafrost area between the LGM and present, and the associated soil carbon stock changes. We also partition these soil carbon stock changes at millennial intervals to capture not only the size but the timing of change. We find that the soil carbon stocks north of the Tropics decreased after the LGM to reach a minimum around 10,000 years ago, after which stocks increased to more than compensate for past losses. This may present part of a solution to untangle the marine and atmospheric 13C record, where the marine records suggest that the terrestrial carbon stock has grown since the LGM, while the atmospheric record also indicates terrestrial losses. To estimate the mineral soil carbon stocks, we have relied on vegetation reconstructions. Some of these reconstructions were created with a novel data-driven machine learning approach. This method may facilitate robust vegetation reconstruction when evidence of past conditions is readily available. Results in this thesis highlight the importance of permafrost, loess deposits and peatlands when considering the soil carbon cycle over long time scales.

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NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Naturgeografi (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Physical Geography (hsv//eng)

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Soil organic carbon
Permafrost
Peat
Loess
Vegetation
Biome reconstruction
Last Glacial Maximum
Deglaciation
Glacial-interglacial cycle
Carbon cycle
Physical Geography
naturgeografi

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