Peatland Wildfire Severity and Post-fire Gaseous Carbon Fluxes

• Published in: Ecosystems (New York) Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 713 - 725
• Main Authors: Gray, Alan, Davies, G. Matt, Domènech, Rut, Taylor, Emily, Levy, Peter E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2021; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anaerobic processes; Anaerobic respiration; anaerobiosis; Analysis; Biomedical and Life Sciences; carbon; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sinks; Ecology; Environmental changes; Environmental Management; fire severity; Fluxes; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Hydrology/Water Resources; Life Sciences; Methane; Peat; Peat-bogs; Peatlands; Perturbation; Plant Sciences; Scotland; Soil temperature; space and time; Wildfires; Zoology; Scotland; Methane; Composite burn index; Canadian Fire Weather Index System; Carbon; UK; Carbon dioxide

The future status of peatlands as carbon stores/sinks is uncertain given current and predicted environmental change. Several factors can affect the magnitude of the peatland carbon sink including disturbances such as wildfire. There is at present little evidence of how wildfire affects the emission...