Modeling peat accumulation over decades to centuries: examples from Sweden and Canada, and perspectives for tropical peatlands

• Main Authors: Talbot, Julie, Kurnianto, Sofyan, Peichl, Matthias, Frolking, Steve, Nilsson, Mats
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2012
• Subjects: peat; accumulation; tropical peatlands; Canada; Bleue; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/earthsci_facpub/510; http://www.peatsociety.org/document/modeling-peat-accumulation-over-decades-centuries-examples-sweden-and-canada-and

Anticipated rates of climate change and increased land-use pressure will subject peatlands to disturbances or destabilization processes not previously experienced in the Holocene. Although many studies have looked at the dynamic response of peatland ecosystem carbon or vegetation to short-term varia...