Strategizing a Comprehensive Laboratory Protocol to Determine the Decomposability of Soil Organic Matter in Permafrost

Christina Schaedel1, Jessica Gilman Ernakovich2, Jennifer W W Harden3, Susan Natali4, Andreas Richter5, Edward Schuur1 and Claire C Treat6, (1)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (5)University of Vienna, Department of Microbiology & Ecosystem Science, Vienna, Austria, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States