ArticleNature communications2018
Biogenic volatile release from permafrost thaw is determined by the soil microbial sink.
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- Microbial and chemical predictors of methane release from a stratified thermokarst permafrost hotspot.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- The active layer soils of Greenlandic permafrost areas can function as important sinks for volatile organic compounds.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Effects of drought and recovery on soil volatile organic compound fluxes in an experimental rainforest.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Volatile and Dissolved Organic Carbon Sources Have Distinct Effects on Microbial Activity, Nitrogen Content, and Bacterial Communities in Soil.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Bidirectional Exchange of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in Subarctic Heath Mesocosms During Autumn Climate Scenarios.Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences · 2022Article
- Greenland Ice Sheet Surfaces Colonized by Microbial Communities Emit Volatile Organic Compounds.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols.Nature geoscience · 2022Article
- Potential of Climate Change and Herbivory to Affect the Release and Atmospheric Reactions of BVOCs from Boreal and Subarctic Forests.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Unearthing Antibiotic Resistance Associated with Disturbance-Induced Permafrost Thaw in Interior Alaska.Microorganisms · 2021Article
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Abstract
Warming in the Arctic accelerates thawing of permafrost-affected soils, which leads to a release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. We do not know whether permafrost thaw also releases non-methane volatile organic compounds that can contribute to both negative and positive radiative forcing on climate. Here we show using proton transfer reaction-time of flight-mass spectrometry that substantial amounts of ethanol and methanol and in total 316 organic ions were released from Greenlandic permafrost soils upon thaw in laboratory incubations. We demonstrate that the majority of this release is taken up in the active layer above. In an experiment using
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