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Title: An incubation study of GHG flux responses to a changing water table linked to biochemical parameters across a peatland restoration chronosequence
Author(s): Hermans, Renée
Zahn, Nils
Andersen, Roxane
Teh, Yit Arn
Cowie, Neil
Subke, Jens-Arne
Keywords: CO2
CH4
carbon
peat quality
pore water chemistry
Issue Date: 31-Mar-2019
Date Deposited: 17-May-2019
Citation: Hermans R, Zahn N, Andersen R, Teh YA, Cowie N & Subke J (2019) An incubation study of GHG flux responses to a changing water table linked to biochemical parameters across a peatland restoration chronosequence. Mires and Peat, 23 (2018/19), Art. No.: 08. http://mires-and-peat.net/pages/volumes/map23/map2308.php; https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2018.DW.354
Abstract: Large areas of northern peatlands have been drained and afforested with conifers in the 20th century. This has led to changes in the hydrology of the peatlands, the quality and quantity of organic matter inputs and soil microbial communities, which are all likely to impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes. Considerable areas of these forest plantations are undergoing restoration, and our aim was to assess whether contrasting compositions of peat, in conjunction with hydrological changes in a controlled lab experiment, impact on GHG fluxes. We incubated vegetation free cores (at 8 °C) from a near-natural bog, restoration sites felled in 1998, 2006, 2012 and a current forest plantation at (a) low water tables, (b) high tables or (c) water tables that were changed from low to high. Results show that peat quality and nutrient availability in the pore water have been altered by the forest plantations, which resulted in dissimilar carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes between the sites under the same temperature and water table conditions. Higher CO2 fluxes were found in the peat cores from the forest plantations than from sites that have undergone restoration and from the near-natural bog. However, there were few differences in methane (CH4) fluxes from the different sites, indicating that on its own (i.e., in the absence of biotic interactions under field conditions) the effects of forestry on CH4 flux are limited.
URL: http://mires-and-peat.net/pages/volumes/map23/map2308.php
DOI Link: 10.19189/MaP.2018.DW.354
Rights: Publisher allows this work to be made available in this repository. Published in Mires and Peat by International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) and International Peatland Society (IPS) with the following policy: The authors of articles published in Mires and Peat may place copies in their own Institutional Repositories immediately after publication on the journal’s website, with no embargo period.

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