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The thermokarst failure at Lake NE-14.
Credit: ARC LTER

Warming will increase nutrient cycling in soils, increasing its fertility and nutrient supplies to streams and lakes. Data from long term fertilization studies at ARC LTER are used to model tundra responses to climate change and disturbance. Long term phosphate fertilization has altered the Kuparuk River’s structure and function, but lake response to fertilization is complicated by lake morphometry – benthic and planktonic communities exhibit different responses in deep versus shallow lakes.

 

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  1. Mack, MC et al. 2004. Ecosystem carbon storage in arctic tundra reduced by long-term nutrient fertilization. Nature. doi.org/10.1038/nature02887

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Edward Rastetter
rastetter@mbl.edu

Posted:  July 6, 2020