Peatlands and global change: response and resilience

SE Page, AJ Baird - Annual review of environment and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems that accumulate dead organic matter (ie, peat) when
plant litter production outpaces peat decay, usually under conditions of frequent or …

Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence‐based approach

LPM Lamers, MA Vile, AP Grootjans… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fens represent a large array of ecosystem services, including the highest biodiversity found
among wetlands, hydrological services, water purification and carbon sequestration. Land …

Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition

FX Joly, M Scherer-Lorenzen… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
With approximately 60 Pg of carbon (C) released as CO2 annually, the decomposition of
dead organic matter feeds the major terrestrial global CO2 flux to the atmosphere …

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 …

Comparison of carbon and nitrogen accumulation rate between bog and fen phases in a pristine peatland with the fen‐bog transition

Q Yang, Z Liu, E Bai - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term carbon and nitrogen dynamics in peatlands are affected by both vegetation
production and decomposition processes. Here, we examined the carbon accumulation rate …

A new model of Holocene peatland net primary production, decomposition, water balance, and peat accumulation

S Frolking, NT Roulet, E Tuittila, JL Bubier… - Earth System …, 2010 - esd.copernicus.org
Peatland carbon and water cycling are tightly coupled, so dynamic modeling of peat
accumulation over decades to millennia should account for carbon-water feedbacks. We …

Variability in exchange of CO2 across 12 northern peatland and tundra sites

M Lund, PM Lafleur, NT Roulet, A Lindroth… - Global Change …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Many wetland ecosystems such as peatlands and wet tundra hold large amounts of organic
carbon (C) in their soils, and are thus important in the terrestrial C cycle. We have …

Storage and turnover of organic matter in soil

MS Torn, CW Swanston, C Castanha… - … organic matter in …, 2009 - books.google.com
Storage and turnover of organic matter in soil Page 239 6 STORAGE AND TURNOVER OF
ORGANIC MATTER IN SOIL MS Torn Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National …

The role of mosses in ecosystem succession and function in Alaska's boreal forest

MR Turetsky, MC Mack… - Canadian Journal of …, 2010 - cdnsciencepub.com
Shifts in moss communities may affect the resilience of boreal ecosystems to a changing
climate because of the role of moss species in regulating soil climate and biogeochemical …

From understanding to sustainable use of peatlands: The WETSCAPES approach

G Jurasinski, S Ahmad, A Anadon-Rosell, J Berendt… - Soil Systems, 2020 - mdpi.com
Of all terrestrial ecosystems, peatlands store carbon most effectively in long-term scales of
millennia. However, many peatlands have been drained for peat extraction or agricultural …