northern peatlands
Pyrogenic Carbon Contributes Substantially to Carbon Storage in Intact and Degraded Northern Peatlands
... in northern peatlands, and we hypothesize that PyC may contribute substantially to that C ...Degraded peatlands had lost approximately 56 kg C m 2 , half of their former C ...to peatlands of ...
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Transient simulations of the carbon and nitrogen dynamics in northern peatlands: from the Last Glacial Maximum to the 21st century
... For northern peatlands an important aspect is also the simulation of freezing and thawing in peat soils, espe- cially in the permafrost area (Wania et ...
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Ecosystem Level Effects of Climate Change on Northern Peatlands
... Boreal peatlands provide globally important ecosystem functions such as the regulation and maintenance of the hydrological cycle, and carbon storage (Limpens et ...relatively northern latitudes where ...
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Implementing northern peatlands in a global land surface model: description and evaluation in the ORCHIDEE high-latitude version model (ORC-HL-PEAT)
... model, peatlands store a fraction of runoff water that is not transported to the ...of peatlands on the variation of TWS, we selected only the grid- cells containing some peat (non-zero peat fraction) and ...
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PEATBOG: a biogeochemical model for analyzing coupled carbon and nitrogen dynamics in northern peatlands
... Abstract. Elevated nitrogen deposition and climate change alter the vegetation communities and carbon (C) and nitro- gen (N) cycling in peatlands. To address this issue we devel- oped a new process-oriented ...
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Questioning ten common assumptions about peatlands
... extant peatlands the addition of organic matter to the peatland has exceeded its loss over long periods of time (decades to millennia), allowing peat to ...In northern peatlands, especially bogs, it ...
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Sediment deposition from eroding peatlands alters headwater invertebrate biodiversity
... these peatlands, where a water surplus leads to slow rates of decomposition and the build ‐ up of low ‐ density organic soil cover (Charman, ...2002). Peatlands naturally release organic matter to river ...
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Piping and woody plants in peatlands: Cause or effect?
... Calluna is a favoured species of upland peat management in many northern peatlands due to its association with improved game bird survival (e.g. grouse) and its growth is often encouraged (Shaw et al., ...
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Methylmercury Production in Two Northern Fen Peatlands
... Methylmercury (MeHg) is the form of mercury produced in anoxic environments, mainly by sulphate reducing bacteria, which methylate mercury as a by product to their respiration. Northern peatlands are sites ...
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Communities of Fungi in Boreal Peatlands
... boreal peatlands (Bokhorst et ...of northern peatlands are likely currently undergoing a rapid change in their environment through the multiple drivers of climate change ...
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Vol 4, No 2 (2019)
... to peatlands. The utilization of peatlands for agriculture and a source of social life in the Kubu Raya Regency has been done for a long time and has been carried on for ...fertile peatlands became a ...
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Late Holocene ecohydrological and carbon dynamics of a UK raised bog: Impact of human activity and climate change
... from coal burning and agriculture (Fowler et al., 2004). Excess N has been linked to negative ecosystem changes through substrate eutrophication and acidification (Woodin and Farmer, 1993; Hogg et al., 1995; Fowler et ...
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Eyes on the Bog: Long term monitoring network for UK peatlands
... because peatlands are so waterlogged (peat typically contains less solids and more liquid by weight than milk), the matrix of peat particles is normally suspended within the volume of water held in the body of ...
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Aerobic and anaerobic respiration in profiles of Polesie Lubelskie peatlands
... tion peatlands, Q10 was significantly lower in anaerobic conditions while in the high peat Q10 had comparable va- lues (Table ...transition) peatlands, which were not protected by ...
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Modelling time-integrated fluxes of CO2 and CH4 in peatlands: A review
... background typical of that of a competent 16-year old, with familiarity of basic mathematical operations and concepts including exponentiation and logarithms. We have further assumed that readers have been taught ...
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Chemical properties of small peatlands deposits (Eastern Polesie)
... phosphorus (Whiting and Chanton, 2016; Yu, 2012). It is estimated that, despite the small area occupied by peatlands (3 to 4% worldwide, 5.5% in Europe, and 4.2% in Poland) (Lipka and Stabryła, 2012; Oleszczuk, ...
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Population Genetic Structure in the Pitcher Plant Flesh Fly Fletcherimyia fletcheri
... 2006). Northern purple pitcher plants occur exclusively in peatlands, including sphagnum bogs, poor fens and seepage swamps, all of which are areas of low nitrogen deposition (Ne’eman et ...
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Hydrophysical properties of ombrotrophic peat under drained peatlands
... The present study has resulted in important findings in relation to the implementation of ecohydrological approaches toward the sustainable management of peatlands. The results show that the hydrophysical ...
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Effect of Ameliorants on Nutrient Uptake and Maize Productivity in Peatlands
... of peatlands is by adding ameliorants (Nurzakiah et ...Borneo peatlands are coastal sediment and salted fish waste which are easily obtained and relatively ...
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Geomorphological controls on fluvial carbon storage in headwater peatlands
... This paper examines the formation of highly organic floodplains downstream of heavily eroded peatlands in the Peak District, UK. Reconstruction of the history of the floodplains suggests that they have formed in ...
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