Microbial Community Changes in 26,500-Year-Old Thawing Permafrost

Northern permafrost soils store more than half of the global soil carbon. Frozen for at least two consecutive years, but often for millennia, permafrost temperatures have increased drastically in the last decades. The resulting thermal erosion leads not only to gradual thaw, resulting in an increase...

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Main Authors: Maria Scheel, Athanasios Zervas, Carsten S. Jacobsen, Torben R. Christensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.787146/full