Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

G Hugelius, J Loisel, S Chadburn… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Northern peatlands have accumulated large stocks of organic carbon (C) and nitrogen (N),
but their spatial distribution and vulnerability to climate warming remain uncertain. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] The Boreal–Arctic wetland and lake dataset (BAWLD)

D Olefeldt, M Hovemyr, MKA Kuhn… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Methane emissions from boreal and arctic wetlands, lakes, and rivers are expected to
increase in response to warming and associated permafrost thaw. However, the lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling northern peatland area and carbon dynamics since the Holocene with the ORCHIDEE-PEAT land surface model (SVN r5488)

C Qiu, D Zhu, P Ciais, B Guenet, S Peng… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The importance of northern peatlands in the global carbon cycle has been recognized,
especially for long-term changes. Yet, the complex interactions between climate and …

Potential carbon loss associated with post-settlement wetland conversion in southern Ontario, Canada

E Byun, SA Finkelstein, SA Cowling… - Carbon balance and …, 2018 - Springer
Background Natural wetlands can mitigate ongoing increases in atmospheric carbon by
storing any net balance of organic carbon (peat) between plant production (carbon uptake) …

Hydrometeorological dataset of West Siberian boreal peatland: a 10-year record from the Mukhrino field station

E Dyukarev, N Filippova, D Karpov… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Northern peatlands represent one of the largest carbon pools in the biosphere but the
carbon they store is increasingly vulnerable to perturbations from climate and land-use …

Contrasting Temperature Sensitivity of CO2 Exchange in Peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

M Helbig, ER Humphreys… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It remains uncertain how the net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE) of diverse peatlands will
respond to warming. Here we compare five years of eddy covariance measurements of NEE …

Post-glacial lake development and paleoclimate in the central Hudson Bay Lowlands inferred from sediment records

KE Hargan, SA Finkelstein, KM Rühland… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
We compile a multi-proxy Holocene record from North Raft Lake located in the sub-Arctic
Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada. Specifically, we use subfossil chironomid, diatom, and …

Peat carbon vulnerability to projected climate warming in the Hudson Bay lowlands, Canada: A decision support tool for land use planning in peatland dominated …

JW McLaughlin, MS Packalen - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Peatlands help regulate climate by sequestering (net removal) carbon from the atmosphere
and storing it in plants and soils. However, as mean annual air temperature (MAAT) …

North American historical monthly spatial climate dataset, 1901–2016

H MacDonald, DW McKenney, P Papadopol… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
We present historical monthly spatial models of temperature and precipitation generated
from the North American dataset version “j” from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …

Global change induced biomass growth offsets carbon released via increased forest fire and respiration of the central Canadian boreal forest

A Gonsamo, JM Chen, SJ Colombo… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Northern boreal forests are sensitive to many effects of global change. This is of particular
concern due to the proportionally greater climate change projected for the area in which …