Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions

J Zou, AD Ziegler, D Chen, G McNicol, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon and nitrogen losses from degraded wetlands and methane emissions from flooded
wetlands are both important sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the net …

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 …

The Holocene of Sweden–a review

S Wastegård - GFF, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a review on more than hundred years of palaeoenvironmental research
in Sweden; from early descriptions of peat and tufa deposits in the late nineteenth and early …

A call for refining the peatland restoration strategy in Europe

D Zak, RJ McInnes - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Substantial amounts of money have been invested in peatland restoration over the last
decades to address the current challenges of global changes and to enhance biodiversity …

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 …

Carbon and climate implications of rewetting a raised bog in Ireland

D Wilson, F Mackin, JP Tuovinen, G Moser… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Peatland rewetting has been proposed as a vital climate change mitigation tool to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and to generate suitable conditions for the return of carbon (C) …

Ongoing fen–bog transition in a boreal aapa mire inferred from repeated field sampling, aerial images, and Landsat data

THM Kolari, A Sallinen, F Wolff, T Kumpula, K Tolonen… - Ecosystems, 2022 - Springer
Northern aapa mire complexes are characterized by patterned fens with flarks (wet fen
surfaces) and bog zone margins with Sphagnum moss cover. Evidence exists of a recent …

Recent Lateral Expansion of Sphagnum Bogs Over Central Fen Areas of Boreal Aapa Mire Complexes

L Granlund, V Vesakoski, A Sallinen, THM Kolari… - Ecosystems, 2022 - Springer
We investigated recent changes in spatial patterning of fen and bog zones in five boreal
aapa mire complexes (mixed peatlands with patterned fen and bog parts) in a multiproxy …

Variations in wetland hydrology drive rapid changes in the microbial community, carbon metabolic activity, and greenhouse gas fluxes

Y Zhang, BDA Naafs, X Huang, Q Song, J Xue… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Wetlands play a crucial role in the carbon cycle as they are the largest natural source of
methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Changes in wetland hydrology can alter the rate of …

A strong mitigation scenario maintains climate neutrality of northern peatlands

C Qiu, P Ciais, D Zhu, B Guenet, J Chang… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Northern peatlands store 300–600 Pg C, of which approximately half are underlain by
permafrost. Climate warming and, in some regions, soil drying from enhanced evaporation …