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Carbon conundrum on the tundra

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Vast amounts of carbon are locked into soils at northern high latitudes. The vexed question of how these ecosystems will respond to global warming is addressed by a long-term experiment in the Arctic.

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Figure 1: Carbon connections in high-latitude terrestrial ecosystems.

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  1. the Ecosystem Science Center, School of Forestry and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, 49931, Michigan, USA

    Wendy M. Loya

  2. the Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, K7L 3N6, Ontario, Canada

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