CARBON RESERVES IN THE UPPER SOIL SEDIMENTS OF SAMOILOVSKY, BOLSHOY LYAKHOVSKY AND KOTELNY ISLANDS

In the tundra swamps of Samoilovsky Island carbon reserves amounted to 21.5 kg TOC/m² and 0.6 kg TIC/m². On Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island it makes 51.6 kg TOC/m² and 5.9 kg TIC/m². In the grass-hypnum bogs of Kotelny island 12.4 kg TOC/m² and 0.3 kg TIC/m² are deposited. On the coastal outcrops of Samoilovsky island with thermal abrasion and thermal denudation reserves vary between 85.8—115.5 kg TOC/m² and 6.9—7.3 kg TIC/m², and on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky island — 51.6 kg TOC/m² and 5.4 kg TIC/m². In the baidzharakhs of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky island the average carbon reserves make 38.6 kg TOC/m² and 6.1 kg TIC/m².

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