The Carbon Cycling across the Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems of Northern Eurasia
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".
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Interests: carbon dioxide; methane; atmospheric composition; ecosystems; siberia
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2. Laboratory of Biogeochemical Cycles in Forest Ecosystems, Siberian Federal University, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Interests: carbon budget; permafrost; hydrochemistry; forest ecosystems; siberia
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Interests: eddy covariance; meteorology; ecosystems; atmosphere; ecology; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue that addresses relevant topics at the nexus of climate and environmental changes across the high latitudes of Siberia and Northern Eurasia. Through physical and biological processes, the vast Siberian domain of Northern Eurasia plays an important role in regulating regional to global carbon and hydrologic cycles, atmospheric composition and climate feedbacks. Climatically sensitive Siberian ecosystems represent a “hot-spot” area of the global earth meteorological system as tremendous and potentially vulnerable repository of terrestrial organic carbon. They comprise approximately 10% of the global carbon stored in vegetation and soils, contribute 5-10% of the global terrestrial net primary productivity, and 65% of the Siberian forests lie on permafrost. Nowadays, Siberia is warming. Climate changes affect forest distribution shifts, vegetation composition, ecosystem’s structure and function through changes in water availability, temperature, prolonged vegetation period and the disturbance regimes. Both observations and model simulations demonstrate changes in the Siberian environment have already been set into motion that may shift the Earth’s climate to a qualitatively different state.
This special issue welcomes articles focusing on atmosphere-ecosystem interactions, terrestrial carbon cycling, lateral terrigenic C fluxes to aquatic systems, wildfire emissions, effects of permafrost degradation, vulnerability and adaptation of plant communities and ecosystems of the boreal zone and the Arctic to climate and environmental changes. Furthermore, we welcome articles reporting novel approaches to monitor, model, and upscale carbon and ecosystem dynamics of Siberia and Northern Eurasia under observed and projected global warming.
Dr. Alexey Panov
Prof. Anatoly S. Prokushkin
Dr. Julia Kurbatova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate changes
- carbon balance
- atmospheric composition
- Siberia
- ecosystems
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