*Ramesh Glueckler^1,2, Shiro Tsuyuzaki¹, Youhei Yamashita¹, Elisabeth Dietze³, Stefan Kruse², Evgenii S. Zakharov^4,5, Aital Egorov⁵, Izabella Baisheva^2,5, Amelie Stieg², Iris Eder², Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring², Luidmila A. Pestryakova⁵, Ulrike Herzschuh^2,6,7 (1.Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 2.Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany, 3.Institute of Geography, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 4.Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia, 5.Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk, Yakutsk, Russia, 6.Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 7.Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)

*Izabella Baisheva^1,2,4,7, Ramesh Glueckler^1,2,8, Amelie K. Stieg¹, Iris Eder¹, Aital Egorov⁴, Evgenii S. Zakharov^4,5, Lena A. Ushnitskaya⁴, Paraskovya V. Davydova⁴, Boris K. Biskaborn¹, Luidmila A. Pestryakova⁴, Sardana N. Levina⁴, Ruslan M. Gorodnichev⁴, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring¹, Birgit Heim¹, Antje Eulenburg⁶, Pier Paul Overduin⁶, Jorge García Molinos⁷, Ulrike Herzschuh^1,2,3 (1.Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany, 2.Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany , 3.Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany , 4.Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk, Yakutsk, Russia, 5.Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia, 6.Permafrost Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany, 7.Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan , 8.Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan )