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Special report: What's really happening in the Arctic and Siberia?
In western Siberia the permafrost is sinking, the temperatures are rising, and the landscape is changing fast. What does that really look like on the ground? We have a special report from the far north of Russia in this month's edition of Climate Now.
Patterns of pedoturbation by tree uprooting in forest soils
In the new Russian journal "Russian Journal of Ecosystem Ecology" a review is published on the morphology of wind disorders in forest soils
Bacteria primarily metabolize at the active layer/permafrost border in the peat core from a permafrost region in western Siberia
The evolution of soil heterotroph microbial number and metabolic activity across the “seasonally thawed (active)—permanently frozen layer” boundary was studied on 100-cm-thick cores from frozen peat mounds located in the discontinuous permafrost zone in western Siberia. There was a systematic decrease of metabolic activity in the upper 40 cm of the peat core from the surface layers of the mosses and lichens towards the beginning of the frozen horizon, followed by an abrupt increase in bacterial metabolism exactly at the border between the thawed layer and the permafrost table.