Roles of thermokarst lakes in a warming world

S Liebner, CU Welte - Trends in Microbiology, 2020 - cell.com
Permafrost covers a quarter of the northern hemisphere land surface and contains twice the
amount of carbon that is currently present in the atmosphere. Future climate change is …

Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change

RI Woolway, B Denfeld, Z Tan, J Jansen… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Millions of lakes inversely stratify during winter. Seemingly subtle variations in the duration
of winter stratification can have major ecological effects by, for example, altering the vertical …

[HTML][HTML] Natural Organic Matter Dynamics in Permafrost Peatlands: Critical Overview of Recent Findings and Characterization Tools

D Folhas, RM Couture, I Laurion, G Vieira… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2025 - Elsevier
Rising temperatures are destabilizing permafrost in northern latitudes, leading to the
mobilization, transformation and cycling of natural organic matter (NOM), nutrients, and …

Contrasting winter versus summer microbial communities and metabolic functions in a permafrost thaw lake

A Vigneron, C Lovejoy, P Cruaud… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Permafrost thawing results in the formation of thermokarst lakes, which are biogeochemical
hotspots in northern landscapes and strong emitters of greenhouse gasses to the …

Increased risk of cyanobacterial blooms in northern high‐latitude lakes through climate warming and phosphorus enrichment

A Przytulska, M Bartosiewicz, WF Vincent - Freshwater Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms are an increasing problem at many locations throughout the
world but are rarely reported in aquatic habitats at high latitudes. Shallow lakes are a major …

Diversity and potential activity of methanotrophs in high methane-emitting permafrost thaw ponds

S Crevecoeur, WF Vincent, J Comte, A Matveev… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Lakes and ponds derived from thawing permafrost are strong emitters of carbon dioxide and
methane to the atmosphere, but little is known about the methane oxidation processes in …

[HTML][HTML] Humic surface waters of frozen peat bogs (permafrost zone) are highly resistant to bio-and photodegradation

LS Shirokova, AV Chupakov, SA Zabelina… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
In contrast to the large number of studies on humic waters from permafrost-free regions and
oligotrophic waters from permafrost-bearing regions, the bio-and photolability of DOM from …

Lichen, moss and peat control of C, nutrient and trace metal regime in lakes of permafrost peatlands

LS Shirokova, AV Chupakov, IS Ivanova… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Permafrost thaw in continental lowlands produces large number of thermokarst (thaw) lakes,
which act as a major regulator of carbon (C) storage in sediments and C emission in the …

Size-fractionated microbiome structure in subarctic rivers and a coastal plume across DOC and salinity gradients

MA Blais, A Matveev, C Lovejoy… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Little is known about the microbial diversity of rivers that flow across the changing subarctic
landscape. Using amplicon sequencing (rRNA and rRNA genes) combined with HPLC …

The dominant role of sunlight in degrading winter dissolved organic matter from a thermokarst lake in a subarctic peatland

F Mazoyer, I Laurion, M Rautio - Biogeosciences, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) leaching from thawing permafrost may promote a positive
feedback on the climate if it is efficiently mineralized into greenhouse gases. However, many …