Postfire carbon balance in boreal bogs of Alberta, Canada

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: WIEDER, R. KELMAN, SCOTT, KIMBERLI D., KAMMINGA, KATHERINE, VILE, MELANIE A., VITT, DALE H., BONE, TIFFANY, XU, BIN, BENSCOTER, BRIAN W., BHATTI, JAGTAR S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Canada; Wabasca
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01756.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2486.2008.01756.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01756.x

Abstract Boreal peatland ecosystems occupy about 3.5 million km 2 of the earth's land surface and store between 250 and 455 Pg of carbon (C) as peat. While northern hemisphere boreal peatlands have functioned as net sinks for atmospheric C since the most recent deglaciation, natural and anthrop...