Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia

A Feurdean, G Florescu, I Tanţău, B Vannière… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wildfires in Siberia are documented to have increased in frequency and severity over recent
decades. However, in the absence of long-term records, it is unclear how far and why this …

[HTML][HTML] Testate amoeba functional traits and their use in paleoecology

K Marcisz, VEJ Jassey, A Kosakyan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

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 drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

GT Swindles, PJ Morris, DJ Mullan, RJ Payne… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Climate warming and human impacts are thought to be causing peatlands to dry, potentially
converting them from sinks to sources of carbon. However, it is unclear whether the …

Decreased carbon accumulation feedback driven by climate‐induced drying of two southern boreal bogs over recent centuries

H Zhang, M Väliranta, S Piilo… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Northern boreal peatlands are important ecosystems in modulating global biogeochemical
cycles, yet their biological communities and related carbon dynamics are highly sensitive to …

Divergent responses of permafrost peatlands to recent climate change

TG Sim, GT Swindles, PJ Morris, AJ Baird… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Permafrost peatlands are found in high-latitude regions and store globally-important
amounts of soil organic carbon. These regions are warming at over twice the global average …

Holocene wildfire regimes in western Siberia: interaction between peatland moisture conditions and the composition of plant functional types

A Feurdean, AC Diaconu, M Pfeiffer, M Gałka… - Climate of the …, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
Wildfire is the most common disturbance type in boreal forests and can trigger significant
changes in forest composition. Waterlogging in peatlands determines the degree of tree …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental warming and precipitation reduction affect the biomass of microbial communities in a Sphagnum peatland

AM Basińska, MK Reczuga, M Gąbka, M Stróżecki… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to their unique flora, hydrology and environmental characteristics, peatlands are
precious and specific habitats for microorganisms and microscopic animals. Their microbial …

The role of climate change in regulating Arctic permafrost peatland hydrological and vegetation change over the last millennium

H Zhang, SR Piilo, MJ Amesbury, DJ Charman… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate warming has inevitable impacts on the vegetation and hydrological dynamics of
high-latitude permafrost peatlands. These impacts in turn determine the role of these …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a new testate amoeba hydrological transfer function for permafrost peatlands of NW Siberia

A Halaś, M Lamentowicz, D Łuców… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The vast areas of permafrost peatlands in the West Siberian Lowland (WSL) hold a
significant amount of carbon currently at risk due to human-caused global warming. The …