Long-term Relationships between Carbon Sequestration, Hydrology, and Tephra Disturbance in a Northern Peatland (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia)

• Main Author: Tilotta, Kristen Marie
• Other Authors: Pendea, Florin, Boyd, Matthew, Turvey, Rosario Adapon
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Northern peatlands; Carbon sequestration; Hydrology; Disturbance; Tephra; Testate amoebae; Holocene; Kamchatka Peninsula; Krutoberegovo; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/820

Northern peatlands are one of the most important carbon reservoirs, storing one-third to one-half of the world’s soil carbon pool and thus changes in their carbon balance have the potential to cause a positive feedback to climate change. While recent studies have made progress in understanding the c...