Radiocarbon and stable carbon isotopes of carbon dioxide produced by respiration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) leached from permafrost soils collected from the North Slope of Alaska in the summers of 2018 and 2022

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) was leached from permafrost soils near the Toolik Field Station in the Alaskan Arctic, either kept in the dark or exposed to light treatments, and then incubated with native permafrost microbial communities. The radiocarbon (14C) and stable carbon (13C) isotopic compositions of the initial DOC present in the dark or light-exposed permafrost soil leachates and the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by microbial respiration of dark or light-exposed permafrost DOC were quantified.