Image: Annika Hollsten
Research project The project investigates climate impacts on land-water carbon fluxes in the Arctic using a combination of empirical and modelling approaches.
David Bastviken, Linköping university
This project aims to assess responses of the Arctic land-water carbon cycle to contemporary and projected climate conditions. We hypothesize that a warmer and wetter climate will trigger biogeochemical changes and accelerate emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The project will carry out (i) comparative studies of the magnitude and control of land-water carbon fluxes across various vegetation, permafrost and climate conditions in the Arctic, (ii) experimental tests of climate driven changes in carbon export from land and greenhouse gas emissions from inland waters, (iii) and process-based modeling for assessments of the land-water C cycle to variation in climate conditions.
