Sentences with phrase «bare peat soils»

And they found that the highest post-thaw emissions of nitrous oxide came from the bare peat soils: these emissions were fivefold those from still - frozen soils and matched the kind of outgassing observed in tropical soils, which are the world's largest natural land - based nitrous oxide source.

New research explores the source of unexpectedly high nitrous oxide emissions from such bare peat soils in Arctic tundra.