Variability in exchange of CO₂ across 12 northern peatland and tundra sites

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 16; no. 9; pp. 2436 - 2448
• Main Authors: LUND, MAGNUS, LAFLEUR, PETER M, ROULET, NIGEL T, LINDROTH, ANDERS, CHRISTENSEN, TORBEN R, AURELA, MIKA, CHOJNICKI, BOGDAN H, FLANAGAN, LAWRENCE B, HUMPHREYS, ELYN R, LAURILA, TUOMAS, OECHEL, WALTER C, OLEJNIK, JANUSZ, RINNE, JANNE, SCHUBERT, PER, NILSSON, MATS B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2010; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Air temperature; Aquatic ecosystems; biomass; carbon; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; data collection; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Ecology; ecosystem respiration; Ecosystem structure; ecosystems; eddy covariance; environmental factors; Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use; Europe; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap; Global warming; Growing season; heat sums; leaf area index; Leaves; Measurement techniques; Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap; mire; Natural Sciences; Naturgeografi; Naturvetenskap; net ecosystem exchange; normalized difference vegetation index; North America; Nutritional status; Organic carbon; peatland; Peatlands; photosynthesis; Physical Geography; Primary production; primary productivity; Respiration; soil; summer; Taiga & tundra; Tundra; Vapor pressure; Vegetation; wetland; Wetlands; Arctic; North America; PN, Arctic; Europe

Many wetland ecosystems such as peatlands and wet tundra hold large amounts of organic carbon (C) in their soils, and are thus important in the terrestrial C cycle. We have synthesized data on the carbon dioxide (CO₂) exchange obtained from eddy covariance measurements from 12 wetland sites, coverin...