Peatland Heterogeneity Impacts on Regional Carbon Flux and Its Radiative Effect Within a Boreal Landscape

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Kou, Dan, Virtanen, Tarmo, Treat, Claire C., Tuovinen, Juha-Pekka, Räsänen, Aleksi, Juutinen, Sari, Mikola, Juha, Aurela, Mika, Heiskanen, Lauri, Heikkilä, Maija, Weckström, Jan, Juselius, Teemu, Piilo, Sanna R., Deng, Jia, Zhang, Yu, Chaudhary, Nitin, Huang, Conghong, Väliranta, Minna, Biasi, Christina, Liu, Xiangyu, Guo, Mingyang, Zhuang, Qianlai, Korhola, Atte, Shurpali, Narasinha J.
• Other Authors: Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Tarmo Virtanen / Principal Investigator, Environmental Change Research Unit (ECRU), Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (Urbaria), Urban Environmental Policy, Department of Forest Sciences, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Biosciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2022
• Subjects: 1172 Environmental sciences; 1171 Geosciences; boreal; landscape; peatland; heterogeneity; carbon; radiative effect; DIOXIDE; CO2; ARCTIC WETLANDS; METHANE FLUXES; CH4 FLUXES; NORTHERN PEATLAND; BIOMASS EQUATIONS; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; SCOTS PINE; VEGETATION; Arctic; Kaamanen; Northern Finland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/348456

Peatlands, with high spatial variability in ecotypes and microforms, constitute a significant part of the boreal landscape and play an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle. However, the effects of this peatland heterogeneity within the boreal landscape are rarely quantified. Here, we use fi...