Data from: Contrasting impacts of short- and long-term large herbivore exclusion on understory net CO2 exchange in a boreal forest
Across boreal forests, trees are the main living biomass carbon (C) stock, but the understory vegetation can contribute significantly to the C cycling and net forest carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) balance. The patchy understory vegetation which consists of sunlit (i.e., lichen-like) and shaded habitats (i.e...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:8429843 2024-09-09T19:28:14+00:00 Data from: Contrasting impacts of short- and long-term large herbivore exclusion on understory net CO2 exchange in a boreal forest Kantola, Noora Väisänen, Maria Leffler, Alan Joshua Welker, Jeffrey 2023-10-11 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hmgqnk9pv unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hmgqnk9pv oai:zenodo.org:8429843 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Reindeer Grazing moss lichen CO2 fluxes automated CO2 measurement info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2023 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hmgqnk9pv 2024-07-26T23:53:06Z Across boreal forests, trees are the main living biomass carbon (C) stock, but the understory vegetation can contribute significantly to the C cycling and net forest carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) balance. The patchy understory vegetation which consists of sunlit (i.e., lichen-like) and shaded habitats (i.e., dwarf shrub-like) is often altered by ungulate grazers. Grazers may influence understory CO 2 exchange, and consequently, the forest CO 2 balance. Grazing affects differently the biomass of slow growing lichens compared to the faster growing mosses and dwarf shrubs, and therefore the effects of grazing on CO 2 exchange in the patchy understory vegetation could vary temporally. We studied how excluding grazing for short- and long-term affects the CO 2 exchange and vegetation biomass in the understory of an oligotrophic Scots pine forest. We measured growing season (2019, 2020) CO 2 exchange across sunlit and shaded habitats inside fences that had excluded large grazers for 0–1 and 25–26 years and in the adjacent grazed area. In addition, we measured the height of understory vegetation. We found that short-term grazer exclusion increased ecosystem CO 2 source fluxes only in the shaded habitats. However, long-term exclusion of grazing decreased CO 2 net release regardless of the habitat type. Furthermore, grazer exclusion increased moss depth immediately which coincided with an abrupt intensification of CO 2 net release. Considering the impacts of grazing over both short- and long-term may help to forecast C fluxes more accurately which may be relevant for informed climate solutions regionally and even on a larger scale. Funding provided by: Kvantum-instituutti, Oulun Yliopisto Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100018871 Award Number: Funding provided by: University of the Arctic Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011586 Award Number: Other/Unknown Material Arctic Zenodo Arctic |
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Across boreal forests, trees are the main living biomass carbon (C) stock, but the understory vegetation can contribute significantly to the C cycling and net forest carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) balance. The patchy understory vegetation which consists of sunlit (i.e., lichen-like) and shaded habitats (i.e., dwarf shrub-like) is often altered by ungulate grazers. Grazers may influence understory CO 2 exchange, and consequently, the forest CO 2 balance. Grazing affects differently the biomass of slow growing lichens compared to the faster growing mosses and dwarf shrubs, and therefore the effects of grazing on CO 2 exchange in the patchy understory vegetation could vary temporally. We studied how excluding grazing for short- and long-term affects the CO 2 exchange and vegetation biomass in the understory of an oligotrophic Scots pine forest. We measured growing season (2019, 2020) CO 2 exchange across sunlit and shaded habitats inside fences that had excluded large grazers for 0–1 and 25–26 years and in the adjacent grazed area. In addition, we measured the height of understory vegetation. We found that short-term grazer exclusion increased ecosystem CO 2 source fluxes only in the shaded habitats. However, long-term exclusion of grazing decreased CO 2 net release regardless of the habitat type. Furthermore, grazer exclusion increased moss depth immediately which coincided with an abrupt intensification of CO 2 net release. Considering the impacts of grazing over both short- and long-term may help to forecast C fluxes more accurately which may be relevant for informed climate solutions regionally and even on a larger scale. Funding provided by: Kvantum-instituutti, Oulun Yliopisto Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100018871 Award Number: Funding provided by: University of the Arctic Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011586 Award Number: |
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