USGS Soil Carbon Research
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| Fifty years of soil temperature data at a boreal forest site near Fairbanks, Alaska
indicate 2 - 5 oC warming, now approaching thaw. This warming will likely effect fire regimes and the occurance of
permafrost, which in turn will effect carbon storage.
(Data of Vladimir Romanovsky, 1999.) back to projects |
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