Differential impact of thermal and physical permafrost disturbances on High Arctic dissolved and particulate fluvial fluxes.

ABSTRACT: Climate warming and changing precipitation patterns have thermally (active layer deepening) and physically (permafrost-thaw related mass movements) disturbed permafrost-underlain watersheds across much of the Arctic, increasing the transfer of dissolved and particulate material from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. We examined the multiyear (2006-2017) impact of thermal and physical permafrost disturbances on all of the major components of fluvial flux. Thermal disturbances increased the flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), but localized physical disturbances decreased multiyear DOC flux. Physical disturbances increased major ion and suspended sediment flux, which remained elevated a decade after disturbance, and changed carbon export from a DOC to a particulate organic carbon (POC) d

SUBMITTER: Beel CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7366920 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature