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Peter Kuhry is a researcher affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science within this field. Their work intersects Environmental Science with an emphasis on Ecology and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to permafrost and climate dynamics. The main topics include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

They have contributed to several recent publications that explore various aspects of soil carbon, permafrost, and environmental responses to climate factors. Notable publications include:

  • "Lability classification of soil organic matter in the northern permafrost region," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "A high spatial resolution soil carbon and nitrogen dataset for the northern permafrost region based on circumpolar land cover upscaling," 2022, Earth system science data

Peter Kuhry frequently collaborates with fellow researchers. The most common coauthors include:

  • Gustaf Hugelius
  • Jens Strauß
  • Guido Grosse
  • Charles D. Koven
  • Matthias Fuchs

Their work is published regularly in specific scholarly venues known for research on geosciences and environmental studies. Frequent publication outlets consist of:

  • Nature Geoscience
  • Science Advances
  • Earth system science data
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

    E. A. G. Schuur;A. D. McGuire;C. Schädel;C. Schädel;Guido Grosse

  • Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region

    C. Tarnocai;J. G. Canadell;E. A. G. Schuur;Peter Kuhry

  • Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

    Edward A. G. Schuur;James Bockheim;Josep G. Canadell;Eugenie Euskirchen

  • Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

    Gustaf Hugelius;Jens Strauss;Sebastian Zubrzycki;Jennifer W. Harden

  • Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Merritt R. Turetsky;Benjamin W. Abbott;Miriam C. Jones;Katey Walter Anthony

  • A Database and Synthesis of Northern Peatland Soil Properties and Holocene Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation

    Julie Loisel;Zicheng Yu;David W. Beilman;Philip Camill

  • Fossil Carbon/Nitrogen Ratios as a Measure of Peat Decomposition

    Peter Kuhry;Dale H. Vitt

  • Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

    D. Olefeldt;S. Goswami;Guido Grosse;D. Hayes

  • Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Benjamin W. Abbott;Miriam C. Jones;Katey Walter Anthony

  • The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions

    G. Hugelius;C. Tarnocai;G. Broll;J. G. Canadell

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Field information links permafrost carbon to physical vulnerabilities of thawing

    Jennifer W. Harden;Charles D. Koven;Chien-Lu Ping;Gustaf Hugelius

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks

    Umakant Mishra;Gustaf Hugelius;Eitan Shelef;Yuanhe Yang

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Development of Sphagnum-dominated peatlands in boreal continental Canada

    Peter Kuhry;Barbara J. Nicholson;L. Dennis Gignac;Dale H. Vitt

  • The Role of Fire in the Development of Sphagnum-Dominated Peatlands in Western Boreal Canada

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  • A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region

    G. Hugelius;James G. Bockheim;P. Camill;B. Elberling;B. Elberling

  • A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

    C.D Koven;E.A.G. Schuur;C Schädel;T. J Bohn

  • Warming‐induced destabilization of peat plateau/thermokarst lake complexes

    A. B. K. Sannel;Peter Kuhry

  • Composition and fate of terrigenous organic matter along the Arctic land-ocean continuum in East Siberia : Insights from biomarkers and carbon isotopes

    Tommaso Tesi;Igor Semiletov;Igor Semiletov;Gustaf Hugelius;Oleg Dudarev

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustaf Hugelius
Gustaf Hugelius Stockholm University
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Charles Tarnocai
Charles Tarnocai Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Vladimir E. Romanovsky University of Alaska Fairbanks
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen

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