Thermokarst Effects on Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes in Streams on the Peel Plateau (NWT, Canada)
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Abstract
Abstract Thermokarst can rapidly mobilize vast amounts of sediment, solutes, and organic carbon previously maintained in frozen soils to inland waters. Streams provide a critical pathway for transforming these materials into carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ), yet the direct effects of thermokarst on fluvial C gas efflux from streams to the atmosphere are largely unknown. Working on the Peel Plateau in the western Canadian Arctic, we show that CO 2 efflux in rill runoff thaw streams (runoff) within retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) was four times greater than in adjacent streams and contributed modestly but disproportionately to efflux at the landscape scale. In contrast, CH 4 efflux was generally greater in adjacent streams than in RTS runoff and, overall, was within the range of values reported for other northern streams. While RTS occurrence was a primary driver of CO 2 efflux, CH 4 efflux was more strongly associated with conditions reflective of biological activity. Transects downstream of two RTSs revealed that CH 4 consistently and rapidly degassed to the atmosphere, while elevated CO 2 was sustained downstream of one RTS feature. At the watershed scale, streams adjacent to RTSs rather than runoff streams within RTSs dominated fluvial CO 2 and CH 4 efflux. Intensifying thermokarst activity in the western Canadian Arctic will likely amplify contributions from runoff streams in RTSs to watershed‐scale fluvial C gas efflux.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".