Fungal relative abundances from root tips of mycorrhizal shrubs and soils of the permafrost boundary and soil chemistry in tussock and shrub tundra, Eight Mile Lake, Alaska

About 1,700 petagrams (Pg) of organic carbon (C) reside in the permafrost soils and sediments of Arctic and Boreal regions. Because this stock is more than twice the size of the atmospheric C pool, there is considerable interest in understanding how the...