Rapid shift in greenhouse forcing of emerging arctic peatlands

Abstract In this study, we hypothesised that the actual development stage (i.e., current age of the ecosystem) is a determining factor for the magnitude of methane production and emissions in young, northern high-latitude peatlands. We demonstrate that the earliest development of peat soil imposes a...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Torben R. Christensen, Johan Scheller, Maria Scheel, Daniel Alexander Rudd, Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski, Mikhail Mastepanov, Efrén López-Blanco
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023
Subjects:
Medicine
R
Science
Q
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29859-4
https://doaj.org/article/e8fed9555c3f43aebde477af561f3cb3
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Summary:Abstract In this study, we hypothesised that the actual development stage (i.e., current age of the ecosystem) is a determining factor for the magnitude of methane production and emissions in young, northern high-latitude peatlands. We demonstrate that the earliest development of peat soil imposes a sink-to-source shift in the greenhouse warming potential of emerging peatlands in response to climate change that holds feedback mechanisms of importance for short-term (< 100 years) climate warming.

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