Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University,
Lanzhou 730000, China
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and
Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Pengcheng Fang
Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Nanjing Normal
University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, China
Bixi Guo
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and
Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Mukan Ji
Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University,
Lanzhou 730000, China
Pengfei Liu
Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University,
Lanzhou 730000, China
Guannan Mao
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and
Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Baiqing Xu
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and
Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Shichang Kang
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Glaciers are an important pool of microorganisms, organic carbon, and nitrogen. This study constructed the first dataset of microbial abundance and total nitrogen in Tibetan Plateau (TP) glaciers and the first dataset of dissolved organic carbon in ice cores on the TP. These new data could provide valuable information for research on the glacier carbon and nitrogen cycle and help in assessing the potential impacts of glacier retreat due to global warming on downstream ecosystems.
Glaciers are an important pool of microorganisms, organic carbon, and nitrogen. This study...
