Small thaw ponds: an unaccounted source of methane in the Canadian high Arctic.

Thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic tundra leads to peat erosion and slumping in narrow and shallow runnel ponds that surround more commonly studied polygonal ponds. Here we compared the methane production between runnel and polygonal ponds using stable isotope ratios, ¹⁴C signatures, and inve...

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Main Authors: Karita Negandhi, Isabelle Laurion, Michael J Whiticar, Pierre E Galand, Xiaomei Xu, Connie Lovejoy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24236014/pdf/?tool=EBI