[PDF][PDF] To better detect drivers of peatland carbon accumulation rates and patterns

H Zhang, M Väliranta - Environmental Research Letters, 2024 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Climate change is undoubtedly a pressing environmental issue challenging the entire world.
To mitigate climate change, various methods have been proposed to reduce net carbon …

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 …

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 …

Climate controls on carbon accumulation in peatlands of Northeast China

W Xing, K Bao, AV Gallego-Sala, DJ Charman… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Peatlands contain around one third of the global soil carbon (C) and play an important role
in the C cycle. In particular, the response of the productivity-decay balance to climate …

Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands

C Qiu, P Ciais, D Zhu, B Guenet, S Peng… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
When a peatland is drained and cultivated, it behaves as a notable source of CO2. However,
we lack temporally and spatially explicit estimates of carbon losses from cultivated …

Massive peatland carbon banks vulnerable to rising temperatures

AM Hopple, RM Wilson, M Kolton, CA Zalman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Peatlands contain one-third of the world's soil carbon (C). If destabilized, decomposition of
this vast C bank could accelerate climate warming; however, the likelihood of this outcome …

Peat deposits store more carbon than trees in forested peatlands of the boreal biome

J Beaulne, M Garneau, G Magnan, É Boucher - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Peatlands are significant carbon (C) stores, playing a key role in nature-based climate
change mitigation. While the effectiveness of non-forested peatlands as C reservoirs is …

Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

DJ Charman, DW Beilman, M Blaauw, RK Booth… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
Peatlands are a major terrestrial carbon store and a persistent natural carbon sink during the
Holocene, but there is considerable uncertainty over the fate of peatland carbon in a …

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 …

Lowering water table reduces carbon sink strength and carbon stocks in northern peatlands

MJ Kwon, A Ballantyne, P Ciais, C Qiu… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Peatlands at high latitudes have accumulated> 400 Pg carbon (C) because saturated soil
and cold temperatures suppress C decomposition. This substantial amount of C in Arctic and …