The impacts of land‐use and climate change on the Zoige peatland carbon cycle: A review

PPJ Gaffney, Q Tang, Q Li, R Zhang… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Zoige peatlands are the largest peatland area in China, and the largest high‐altitude
peatland in the world. As with many peatlands worldwide, degradation from land …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid carbon accumulation in a peatland following Late Holocene tephra deposition, New Zealand

JL Ratcliffe, DJ Lowe, LA Schipper, MJ Gehrels… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Contemporary measurements of carbon (C) accumulation rates in peatlands around the
world often show the C sink to be stronger on average than at times in the past. Alteration of …

The importance of aquatic carbon fluxes in net ecosystem carbon budgets: A catchment-scale review

JR Webb, IR Santos, DT Maher, K Finlay - Ecosystems, 2019 - Springer
The growing importance of resolving ecosystem carbon budgets has resulted in more
studies integrating terrestrial and aquatic carbon fluxes. Although recent estimates highlight …

Misinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat

DM Young, AJ Baird, DJ Charman, CD Evans… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Peatlands are globally important stores of carbon (C) that contain a record of how their rates
of C accumulation have changed over time. Recently, near-surface peat has been used to …

Persistent carbon sink at a boreal drained bog forest

K Minkkinen, P Ojanen, T Penttilä, M Aurela… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Drainage of peatlands is expected to turn these ecosystems into carbon sources to the
atmosphere. We measured carbon dynamics of a drained forested peatland in southern …

Hydrometeorological sensitivities of net ecosystem carbon dioxide and methane exchange of an Amazonian palm swamp peatland

TJ Griffis, DT Roman, JD Wood, J Deventer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tropical peatlands are a major, but understudied, biophysical feedback factor on the
atmospheric greenhouse effect. The largest expanses of tropical peatlands are located in …

A cautionary tale about using the apparent carbon accumulation rate (aCAR) obtained from peat cores

DM Young, AJ Baird, AV Gallego-Sala, J Loisel - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The carbon (C) accumulation histories of peatlands are of great interest to scientists, land
users and policy makers. Because peatlands contain more than 500 billion tonnes of C, an …

Salinity pulses interact with seasonal dry‐down to increase ecosystem carbon loss in marshes of the Florida Everglades

BJ Wilson, S Servais, V Mazzei… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal wetlands are globally important sinks of organic carbon (C). However, to what extent
wetland C cycling will be affected by accelerated sea‐level rise (SLR) and saltwater …

Utilisation of XRF core scanning on peat and other highly organic sediments

J Longman, D Veres, V Wennrich - Quaternary International, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract XRF core scanning (XRF-CS) is a valuable tool, which allows for the rapid, non-
destructive geochemical analysis of sediment cores at extremely high (sub-millimetre) …

Carbon accumulation, flux, and fate in Stordalen Mire, a permafrost peatland in transition

ME Holmes, PM Crill, WC Burnett… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stordalen Mire is a peatland in the discontinuous permafrost zone in arctic Sweden that
exhibits a habitat gradient from permafrost palsa, to Sphagnum bog underlain by permafrost …