Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium


Por: Charman D.J., Beilman D.W., Blaauw M., Booth R.K., Brewer S., Chambers F.M., Christen J.A., Gallego-Sala A., Harrison S.P., Hughes, PDM, Jackson S.T., Korhola A., Mauquoy D., Mitchell, FJG, Prentice I.C., Van Der Linden M., De Vleeschouwer F., Yu Z.C., Alm J., Bauer I.E., Corish, YMC, Garneau M., Hohl V., Huang Y., Karofeld E., Le Roux G., Loisel J., Moschen R., Nichols J.E., Nieminen T.M., MacDonald G.M., Phadtare N.R., Rausch N., Sillasoo U., Swindles G.T., Tuittila, ES, Ukonmaanaho L., Valiranta, M, Van Bellen S., Van Geel B., Vitt D.H., Zhao Y.

Publicada: 1 ene 2013
Resumen:
Peatlands are a major terrestrial carbon store and a persistent natural carbon sink during the Holocene, but there is considerable uncertainty over the fate of peatland carbon in a changing climate. It is generally assumed that higher temperatures will increase peat decay, causing a positive feedback to climate warming and contributing to the global positive carbon cycle feedback. Here we use a new extensive database of peat profiles across northern high latitudes to examine spatial and temporal patterns of carbon accumulation over the past millennium. Opposite to expectations, our results indicate a small negative carbon cycle feedback from past changes in the long-term accumulation rates of northern peatlands. Total carbon accumulated over the last 1000 yr is linearly related to contemporary growing season length and photosynthetically active radiation, suggesting that variability in net primary productivity is more important than decomposition in determining long-term carbon accumul

Filiaciones:
Charman D.J.:
 Department of Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom

Beilman D.W.:
 Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i Mnoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States

Blaauw M.:
 School of Geography Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom

Booth R.K.:
 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, United States

Brewer S.:
 Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States

Chambers F.M.:
 Centre for Environmental Change and Quaternary Research, SNSS, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ, United Kingdom

Christen J.A.:
 Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.P. 402, 36000 Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico

Gallego-Sala A.:
 QUEST, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom

 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, United Kingdom

 Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund Universitet, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden

Harrison S.P.:
 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, United Kingdom

 Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia

Jackson S.T.:
 Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, United States

Korhola A.:
 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, 00014 Helsinki, Finland

Mauquoy D.:
 School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, United Kingdom

Prentice I.C.:
 Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia

 Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7PY, United Kingdom

Van Der Linden M.:
 BIAX Consult, Hogendijk 134, 1506 AL Zaandam, Netherlands

De Vleeschouwer F.:
 CNRS and Université de Toulouse, INP, ENSAT, Avenue de l'Agrobiopole, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France

Yu Z.C.:
 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, United States

Alm J.:
 School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 68, 80101 Joensuu, Finland

Bauer I.E.:
 Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 6P9, Canada

Garneau M.:
 Département de Géographie and GEOTOP, Université du Québec À Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada

Hohl V.:
 Department of Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom

Huang Y.:
 Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States

Karofeld E.:
 University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Lai 40, Tartu 51005, Estonia

Le Roux G.:
 CNRS and Université de Toulouse, INP, ENSAT, Avenue de l'Agrobiopole, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France

Loisel J.:
 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, United States

Moschen R.:
 Institute of Bio-and Geosciences 3: Agrosphere, Research Centre Juelich (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Jülich 52428, Germany

Nichols J.E.:
 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, United States

 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, United States

Nieminen T.M.:
 Finnish Forest Research Institute, P.O. Box 18, 01301 Vantaa, Finland

MacDonald G.M.:
 Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Department of Geography, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States

Phadtare N.R.:
 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun, India

Rausch N.:
 Institute of Environmental Geochemistry, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 236, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Sillasoo U.:
 Institute of Ecology, Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, Tallinn 10120, Estonia

Swindles G.T.:
 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

Ukonmaanaho L.:
 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, United States

Van Bellen S.:
 School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, United Kingdom

Van Geel B.:
 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vitt D.H.:
 Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, United States

Zhao Y.:
 Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, Hants, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
ISSN: 17264170
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