The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands

LI Harris, K Richardson, KA Bona… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Northern peatlands have cooled the global climate by accumulating large quantities of soil
carbon (C) over thousands of years. Maintaining the C sink function of these peatlands and …

The effect of climate change on sources of radionuclides to the marine environment

JP Gwynn, V Hatje, N Casacuberta, M Sarin… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change interacts with the sources and cycling of contaminants, such as
radionuclides, in the environment. In this review, we discuss the implications of climate …

Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands

H Zhang, M Väliranta, GT Swindles… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including
permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century …

Widespread recent ecosystem state shifts in high‐latitude peatlands of northeastern Canada and implications for carbon sequestration

G Magnan, NK Sanderson, S Piilo, S Pratte… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Northern peatlands are a major component of the global carbon (C) cycle. Widespread
climate‐driven ecohydrological changes in these ecosystems can have major …

[HTML][HTML] Permafrost changes in the northwestern Da Xing'anling Mountains, Northeast China, in the past decade

X Chang, H Jin, R He, Y Zhang, X Li… - Earth System Science …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Under a pronounced climate warming, permafrost has been degrading in most areas
globally, but it is still unclear in the northwestern part of the Da Xing'anling Mountains …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping surface water dynamics (1985–2021) in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada using sub-pixel Landsat Analysis

I Olthof, RH Fraser - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The fate of the carbon stored in frozen peatlands in Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL)
depends strongly on water, with wetter conditions favoring long-term storage. Dynamic …

Consistent centennial‐scale change in European sub‐Arctic peatland vegetation toward Sphagnum dominance—Implications for carbon sink capacity

SR Piilo, MM Väliranta, MJ Amesbury… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is leading to permafrost thaw in northern peatlands, and current
predictions suggest that thawing will drive greater surface wetness and an increase in …

Methane production and oxidation potentials along a fen‐bog gradient from southern boreal to subarctic peatlands in Finland

H Zhang, ES Tuittila, A Korrensalo… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Methane (CH4) emissions from northern peatlands are projected to increase due to climate
change, primarily because of projected increases in soil temperature. Yet, the rates and …

Environmental spaces for palsas and peat plateaus are disappearing at a circumpolar scale

OH Könönen, O Karjalainen, J Aalto… - The Cryosphere …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
The anthropogenic climate change threatens northern permafrost environments. This
compromises the existence of permafrost landforms, such as palsas and peat plateaus …

Controls on saturated hydraulic conductivity in a degrading permafrost peatland complex

RE Fewster, PJ Morris, GT Swindles… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost peatlands are vulnerable to rapid structural changes under climatic warming,
including vertical collapse. Peatland water budgets, and therefore peat hydraulic properties …