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Carbon cycling in peatlands A review of processes and controls
Abstract
Covering only 3% of the land area, northern peatlands store about 30% of the global soil carbon and account for 5 to 10% of the global methane burden to the atmosphere. A review of the literature on net ecosystem exchange, net primary productivity, carbon mineralization, methane emissions, and dissolved organic carbon dynamics indicates that peatlands can be both C sources and sinks. The temporal and spatial variability of fluxes is large, but a substantial portion of this variation can be explained by environmental and ecological variables. Uncertainty in predictions about carbon dynamics under changing environmental conditions arises from a number of knowledge gaps: (i) the understanding of how organic matter is mineralized and partitioned into carbon dioxide, methane, and dissolved organic carbon is insufficient; (ii) little is known about the consequences of long-term and short-term disturbances, such as elevated carbon dioxide concentrations, nitrogen and sulfur deposition, fire, and droughts, on the individual components of the carbon cycle; (iii) models that capture the dynamic interaction of the processes and their controls have not been developed yet, with the notable exception of methane dynamics. Key words: peatlands, carbon cycle, organic matter, carbon dioxide, methane, climate change.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Blodau, C.
- Venue
- Environmental Reviews
- Publisher
- Canadian Science Publishing
- Published
- 2002-05-14
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 111-134
- ISSN
- 1181-8700 (ISSN-L)
- 1208-6053
- OpenAlex
- W1983239894
- Cited by
- 400
- References
- 115
- FWCI
- 3.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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