Rapid shift in greenhouse forcing of emerging arctic peatlands

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-...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Christensen, Torben R., Scheller, Johan, Scheel, Maria, Rudd, Daniel Alexander, Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin, Mastepanov, Mikhail, López-Blanco, Efrén
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9938109/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36806215
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29859-4
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Summary: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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