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Microbial Communities and Processes in Arctic Permafrost Environments

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Microbiology of Extreme Soils

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 13))

The Arctic plays a key role in Earth's climate system, as global warming is predicted to be most pronounced at high latitudes and because one third of the global carbon pool is stored in ecosystems of the northern latitudes. Global warming will have important implications for the functional diversity of microbial communities in these systems. It is likely that temperature increases at high latitudes will stimulate microbial activity and carbon decomposition in Arctic environments and accelerate climate change by increasing trace gas release (Melillo et al. 2002, Zimov et al. 2006).

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Wagner, D. (2008). Microbial Communities and Processes in Arctic Permafrost Environments. In: Dion, P., Nautiyal, C.S. (eds) Microbiology of Extreme Soils. Soil Biology, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74231-9_7

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