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Science 16 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5780, pp. 1612 - 1613
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128908
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Permafrost and the Global Carbon Budget

Sergey A. Zimov1, Edward A. G. Schuur2, F. Stuart Chapin III3

Climate warming will thaw permafrost, releasing trapped carbon from this high-latitude reservoir and further exacerbating global warming.

1S. A. Zimov is at the North-East Scientific Station, Pacific Institute for Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Cherskii, Republic of Sakha 678830, Russia. E-mail: sazimov{at}cher.sakha.ru 2E. A. G. Schuur is in the Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. 3F. S. Chapin III is at the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000, USA.

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