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Köster E, Chapman JPB, Barel JM, Korrensalo A, Laine AM, Vasander HT, Tuittila ES. Water level drawdown makes boreal peatland vegetation more responsive to weather conditions. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2023; 29:5691-5705. [PMID: 37577794 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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Climate warming and projected increase in summer droughts puts northern peatlands under pressure by subjecting them to a combination of gradual drying and extreme weather events. The combined effect of those on peatland functions is poorly known. Here, we studied the impact of long-term water level drawdown (WLD) and contrasting weather conditions on leaf phenology and biomass production of ground level vegetation in boreal peatlands. Data were collected during two contrasting growing seasons from a WLD experiment including a rich and a poor fen and an ombrotrophic bog. Results showed that WLD had a strong effect on both leaf area development and biomass production, and these responses differed between peatland types. In the poor fen and the bog, WLD increased plant growth, while in the rich fen, WLD reduced the growth of ground level vegetation. Plant groups differed in their response, as WLD reduced the growth of graminoids, while shrubs and tree seedlings benefited from it. In addition, the vegetation adjusted to the lower WTs, was more responsive to short-term climatic variations. The warmer summer resulted in a greater maximum and earlier peaking of leaf area index, and greater biomass production by vascular plants and Sphagnum mosses at WLD sites. In particular, graminoids benefitted from the warmer conditions. The change towards greater production in the WLD sites in general and during the warmer weather in particular, was related to the observed transition in plant functional type composition towards arboreal vegetation.
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- Egle Köster
- School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
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- School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Joensuu, Finland
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- School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
- Geological Survey of Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Wang X, Zhang Q, Zhang Z, Li W, Liu W, Xiao N, Liu H, Wang L, Li Z, Ma J, Liu Q, Ren C, Yang G, Zhong Z, Han X. Decreased soil multifunctionality is associated with altered microbial network properties under precipitation reduction in a semiarid grassland. IMETA 2023; 2:e106. [PMID: 38868425 PMCID: PMC10989785 DOI: 10.1002/imt2.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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Our results reveal different responses of soil multifunctionality to increased and decreased precipitation. By linking microbial network properties to soil functions, we also show that network complexity and potentially competitive interactions are key drivers of soil multifunctionality.
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- Xing Wang
- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant BiologyUniversity of OklahomaNormanOklahomaUSA
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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- Institute of Soil and Water ConservationNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
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- College of AgronomyNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingChina
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Circular AgricultureYanglingChina
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Stuart JEM, Tucker CL, Lilleskov EA, Kolka RK, Chimner RA, Heckman KA, Kane ES. Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2023; 29:780-793. [PMID: 36308039 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A small imbalance in plant productivity and decomposition accounts for the carbon (C) accumulation capacity of peatlands. As climate changes, the continuity of peatland net C storage relies on rising primary production to offset increasing ecosystem respiration (ER) along with the persistence of older C in waterlogged peat. A lowering in the water table position in peatlands often increases decomposition rates, but concurrent plant community shifts can interactively alter ER and plant productivity responses. The combined effects of water table variation and plant communities on older peat C loss are unknown. We used a full-factorial 1-m3 mesocosm array with vascular plant functional group manipulations (Unmanipulated Control, Sedge only, and Ericaceous only) and water table depth (natural and lowered) treatments to test the effects of plants and water depth on CO2 fluxes, decomposition, and older C loss. We used Δ14 C and δ13 C of ecosystem CO2 respiration, bulk peat, plants, and porewater dissolved inorganic C to construct mixing models partitioning ER among potential sources. We found that the lowered water table treatments were respiring C fixed before the bomb spike (1955) from deep waterlogged peat. Lowered water table Sedge treatments had the oldest dissolved inorganic 14 C signature and the highest proportional peat contribution to ER. Decomposition assays corroborated sustained high rates of decomposition with lowered water tables down to 40 cm below the peat surface. Heterotrophic respiration exceeded plant respiration at the height of the growing season in lowered water table treatments. Rates of gross primary production were only impacted by vegetation, whereas ER was affected by vegetation and water table depth treatments. The decoupling of respiration and primary production with lowered water tables combined with older C losses suggests that climate and land-use-induced changes in peatland hydrology can increase the vulnerability of peatland C stores.
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- Julia E M Stuart
- College of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Climate, Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences Unit (NRS-6), Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Climate, Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences Unit (NRS-6), Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Forestry Sciences Lab, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
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- College of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Climate, Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences Unit (NRS-6), Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- College of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
- USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Climate, Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences Unit (NRS-6), Houghton, Michigan, USA
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Du Y, Wang YP, Hui D, Su F, Yan J. Significant effects of precipitation frequency on soil respiration and its components-A global synthesis. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2023; 29:1188-1205. [PMID: 36408676 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Global warming intensifies the hydrological cycle, which results in changes in precipitation regime (frequency and amount), and will likely have significant impacts on soil respiration (Rs ). Although the responses of Rs to changes in precipitation amount have been extensively studied, there is little consensus on how Rs will be affected by changes in precipitation frequency (PF) across the globe. Here, we synthesized the field observations from 296 published papers to quantify the effects of PF on Rs and its components using meta-analysis. Our results indicated that the effects of PF on Rs decreased with an increase in background mean annual precipitation. When the data were grouped by climate conditions, increased PF showed positive effects on Rs under the arid condition but not under the semi-humid or humid conditions, whereas decreased PF suppressed Rs across all the climate conditions. The positive effects of increased PF mainly resulted from the positive response of heterotrophic respiration under the arid condition while the negative effects of decreased PF were mainly attributed to the reductions in root biomass and respiration. Overall, our global synthesis provided for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the divergent effects of PF on Rs and its components across climate regions. This study also provided a framework for understanding and modeling responses of ecosystem carbon cycling to global precipitation change.
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- Yue Du
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Seniczak A, Seniczak S, Iturrondobeitia JC, Gwiazdowicz DJ, Waldon-Rudzionek B, Flatberg KI, Bolger T. Mites (Oribatida and Mesostigmata) and vegetation as complementary bioindicators in peatlands. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 851:158335. [PMID: 36030861 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 08/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Vegetation is widely used in the assessment of the quality of peatlands, while the invertebrate fauna of peatlands is relatively poorly studied. We compared the bioindicator values of vegetation with two arthropod groups widespread in peatlands, saprophagous Oribatida (Acariformes) and predatory Mesostigmata (Parasitiformes) mites. Samples were collected from ecotones at the edges of peatland ponds in Poland, including four in near-natural condition (i.e., peatlands unaffected by human activity) and three in previously disturbed but now recovering peatlands. A set of abiotic parameters was measured at each site: pond area, mean annual temperature, annual precipitation, and water parameters (pH, conductivity, colour, total nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and organic carbon). Overall, 63,635 specimens of Oribatida and 448 of Mesostigmata were recovered in the sampling. Species richness of Oribatida (56 species) was higher than that of flora (46) and Mesostigmata (15). Vegetation was significantly associated with annual precipitation in the years 1998-2007 which accounted for 29.1 % of the variation in vegetation communities. Oribatida variability was significantly associated with the content of organic carbon in water accounting for 32.4 % of variation. In contrast, variation in the Mesostigmata was not significantly associated with any of the abiotic parameters. Vegetation at ponds in previously disturbed and now recovering peatlands had higher bush cover than at near-natural ponds and the pond in the cutaway peat had lowest moss cover and the highest number of associate species (i.e., species with wide tolerance not characteristic of the certain community). Mite communities did not differ consistently between near-natural and recovering peatlands. Sphagnum divinum Flatberg et Hassel was recorded from Poland for the first time.
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- Anna Seniczak
- Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Postbox 7800, 5020 Bergen, Norway.
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolińskich Av. 12, 85-093 Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Zoology and Cellular Animal Biology, University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Sarriena S/N., E-48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71c, 60-625 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolińskich Av. 12, 85-093 Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Postbox 8900, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Ullah I, Adnan M, Begum S, Nazir R, Javed T, Aziz MA. Effects of ecological factors on phytochemical and nutritional composition of Caralluma tuberculata N. E. Brown. BIOCHEM SYST ECOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2022.104518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Crichton KA, Anderson K, Charman DJ, Gallego-Sala A. Seasonal climate drivers of peak NDVI in a series of Arctic peatlands. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 838:156419. [PMID: 35662594 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Changes in plant cover and productivity are important in driving Arctic soil carbon dynamics and sequestration, especially in peatlands. Warming trends in the Arctic are known to have resulted in changes in plant productivity, extent and community composition, but more data are still needed to improve understanding of the complex controls and processes involved. Here we assess plant productivity response to climate variability between 1985 and 2020 by comparing peak growing season NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index data from Landsat 5 and 7), to seasonal-average weather data (temperature, precipitation and snow-melt timing) in nine locations containing peatlands in high- and low-Arctic regions in Europe and Canada. We find that spring (correlation 0.36 for peat dominant and 0.39 for mosaic; MLR coefficient 0.20 for peat, 0.29 for mosaic), summer (0.47, 0.42; 0.18, 0.17) and preceding-autumn (0.35, 0.25; 0.33, 0.27) temperature are linked to peak growing season NDVI at our sites between 1985 and 2020, whilst spring snow melt timing (0.42, 0.45; 0.25, 0.32) is also important, and growing season water availability is likely site-specific. According to regression trees, a warm preceding autumn (September-October-November) is more important than a warm summer (June-July-August) in predicting the highest peak season productivity in the peat-dominated areas. Mechanisms linked to soil processes may explain the importance of previous-Autumn conditions on productivity. We further find that peak productivity increases in these Arctic peatlands are comparable to those in the surrounding non-peatland-dominant vegetation. Increased productivity in and around Arctic peatlands suggests a potential to increased soil carbon sequestration with future warming, but further work is needed to test whether this is evident in observations of recent peat accumulation and extent.
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- Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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The Sensitivity of Vegetation Dynamics to Climate Change across the Tibetan Plateau. ATMOSPHERE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos13071112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Vegetation dynamics are key processes which present the ecology system’s response to climate change. However, vegetation sensitivity to climate change remains controversial. This study redefined vegetation sensitivity to precipitation (VSP) and vegetation sensitivity to temperature (VST) by the coefficient of determination (R2) obtained by a linear regression analysis between climate and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), as well as by using an analysis of variance to explore the significant differences between them in different seasons from 1982 to 2013, and exploring the general changed rules of VSP/VST on a timescale. Moreover, the variations in VSP and VST across the Tibetan Plateau were plotted by regression analysis. Finally, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to verify the hypothesis that the respondence of VSP and VST to the NDVI was regulated by the hydrothermal conditions. Our results showed that: (1) the annual VSP increased in both spring and winter (R2 = 0.32, p < 0.001; R2 = 0.25, p < 0.001, respectively), while the annual VST decreased in summer (R2 = 0.21, p < 0.001); (2) the threshold conditions of seasonal VSP and seasonal VST were captured in the 4–12 mm range (monthly precipitation) and at 0 °C (monthly average temperature), respectively; (3) the SEM demonstrated that climate change has significant direct effects on VSP only in spring and winter and on VST only in summer (path coefficient of −0.554, 0.478, and −0.428, respectively). In summary, our findings highlighted that climate change under these threshold conditions would lead to a variation in the sensitivity of the NDVI to seasonal precipitation and temperature.
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Antala M, Juszczak R, van der Tol C, Rastogi A. Impact of climate change-induced alterations in peatland vegetation phenology and composition on carbon balance. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 827:154294. [PMID: 35247401 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Global climate is changing faster than humankind has ever experienced. Model-based predictions of future climate are becoming more complex and precise, but they still lack crucial information about the reaction of some important ecosystems, such as peatlands. Peatlands belong to one of the largest carbon stores on the Earth. They are mostly distributed in high latitudes, where the temperature rises faster than in the other parts of the planet. Warmer climate and changes in precipitation patterns cause changes in the composition and phenology of peatland vegetation. Peat mosses are becoming less abundant, vascular plants cover is increasing, and the vegetation season and phenophases of vascular plants start sooner. The alterations in vegetation cause changes in the carbon assimilation and release of greenhouse gases. Therefore, this article reviews the impact of climate change-induced alterations in peatland vegetation phenology and composition on future climate and the uncertainties that need to be addressed for more accurate climate prediction.
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- Michal Antala
- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649 Poznań, Poland
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- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649 Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649 Poznań, Poland; Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands.
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Examining the Socio-Economic and Natural Resource Risks of Food Estate Development on Peatlands: A Strategy for Economic Recovery and Natural Resource Sustainability. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14073961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Given the huge impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food and agriculture sectors, rapid measures are needed to reduce the risk of food crises, especially among the poor and the most vulnerable communities. The government of Indonesia planned to establish the Food Estate National Program to ensure food security. Most of the area will be on peatlands, and as such, the program still faces pros and cons as it might open up opportunities for deforestation, threats to biodiversity, and loss of community livelihoods. We conducted the present research in Central Kalimantan to formulate a food estate (FE) development strategy by taking into account the potential benefits and risks to ensure increases in the local community’s welfare and the sustainability of biodiversity. Data were collected through field surveys, interviews, focus group discussion (FGD), and literature studies. The results show that the operation of a food estate on degraded peatlands has a moderate to high level of risk of negative impacts. Community activities and changes in farming methods through using more inputs and mechanical equipment are the most risky activities in FE development. The low substitutability of peatlands requires mitigation efforts as part of risk management. The operation of food systems on peatlands must be based on a strong sustainability perspective with a main principle of complementary resources. The main strategy is to protect natural resources and replace cultivated exotic plants with potential native peat plants with minimal risk. In addition, the policy and capacity building of farmers towards a business-oriented direction will maximize socioeconomic benefits. Utilization of biodiversity and low-impact cultivation techniques can ensure sustainability.
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Salimi S, Berggren M, Scholz M. Response of the peatland carbon dioxide sink function to future climate change scenarios and water level management. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2021; 27:5154-5168. [PMID: 34157201 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Stress factors such as climate change and drought may switch the role of temperate peatlands from carbon dioxide (CO2 ) sinks to sources, leading to positive feedback to global climate change. Water level management has been regarded as an important climate change mitigation strategy as it can sustain the natural net CO2 sink function of a peatland. Little is known about how resilient peatlands are in the face of future climate change scenarios, as well as how effectively water level management can sustain the CO2 sink function to mitigate global warming. The authors assess the effect of climate change on CO2 exchange of south Swedish temperate peatlands, which were either unmanaged or subject to water level regulation. Climate chamber simulations were conducted using experimental peatland mesocosms exposed to current and future representative concentration pathway (RCP) climate scenarios (RCP 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5). The results showed that all managed and unmanaged systems under future climate scenarios could serve as CO2 sinks throughout the experimental period. However, the 2018 extreme drought caused the unmanaged mesocosms under the RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 switch from a net CO2 sink to a source during summer. Surprisingly, the unmanaged mesocosms under RCP 2.6 benefited from the warmer climate, and served as the best sink among the other unmanaged systems. Water level management had the greatest effect on the CO2 sink function under RCP 8.5 and RCP 4.5, which improved their CO2 sink capability up to six and two times, respectively. Under the current climate scenario, water level management had a negative effect on the CO2 sink function, and it had almost no effect under RCP 2.6. Therefore, the researchers conclude that water level management is necessary for RCP 8.5, beneficial for RCP 4.5 and unimportant for RCP 2.6 and the current climate.
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- Shokoufeh Salimi
- Division of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Civil Engineering Science, School of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Department of Town Planning, Engineering Networks and Systems, South Ural State University (National Research University), Chelyabinsk, The Russian Federation
- Institute of Environmental Engineering, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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The Relative Contributions of Climate and Grazing on the Dynamics of Grassland NPP and PUE on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. REMOTE SENSING 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/rs13173424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Net primary productivity (NPP) and precipitation-use efficiency (PUE) are crucial indicators in understanding the responses of vegetation to global change. However, the relative contributions of climate change and human interference to the dynamics of NPP and PUE remain unclear. During the past few decades, the impacts of climate change and human activities on alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) have been intensifying. The aims of the study were to investigate the spatiotemporal patterns of grassland NPP and PUE on the QTP during 2000–2017 and quantify how much of the variance in NPP and PUE can be attributed to the climatic factors (precipitation and temperature) and grazing intensity. The results showed that: (1) grassland NPP significantly increased with a rate of 0.6 g C m−2 year−1 over the past 18 years, mainly induced by the increased temperature and the enhanced precipitation. The temperature was the dominant factor for NPP interannual variation in mid-eastern QTP, and precipitation restrained vegetation growth most in the southwest and northeast. (2) The PUE was higher on the eastern and western parts of the plateau, but lower at the center. Regarding grassland types, the PUE of alpine steppe (0.19 g C m−2 mm−1) was significantly lower than those of alpine meadow (0.31 g C m−2 mm−1) and desert steppe (0.32 g C m−2 mm−1). (3) Precipitation was significantly and negatively correlated with PUE and contributed the most to the temporal variation of grassland PUE on the QTP (52.7%). (4) Furthermore, we found that the grazing activities had the lowest contributions to both NPP and PUE interannual variation, compared to temperature and precipitation. Thus, it is suggested that climate variability rather than grazing activities dominated vegetation changes on the QTP.
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The Rhizosphere Responds: Rich Fen Peat and Root Microbial Ecology after Long-Term Water Table Manipulation. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:e0024121. [PMID: 33811029 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00241-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hydrologic shifts due to climate change will affect the cycling of carbon (C) stored in boreal peatlands. Carbon cycling in these systems is carried out by microorganisms and plants in close association. This study investigated the effects of experimentally manipulated water tables (lowered and raised) and plant functional groups on the peat and root microbiomes in a boreal rich fen. All samples were sequenced and processed for bacterial, archaeal (16S DNA genes; V4), and fungal (internal transcribed spacer 2 [ITS2]) DNA. Depth had a strong effect on microbial and fungal communities across all water table treatments. Bacterial and archaeal communities were most sensitive to the water table treatments, particularly at the 10- to 20-cm depth; this area coincides with the rhizosphere or rooting zone. Iron cyclers, particularly members of the family Geobacteraceae, were enriched around the roots of sedges, horsetails, and grasses. The fungal community was affected largely by plant functional group, especially cinquefoils. Fungal endophytes (particularly Acephala spp.) were enriched in sedge and grass roots, which may have underappreciated implications for organic matter breakdown and cycling. Fungal lignocellulose degraders were enriched in the lowered water table treatment. Our results were indicative of two main methanogen communities, a rooting zone community dominated by the archaeal family Methanobacteriaceae and a deep peat community dominated by the family Methanomicrobiaceae. IMPORTANCE This study demonstrated that roots and the rooting zone in boreal fens support organisms likely capable of methanogenesis, iron cycling, and fungal endophytic association and are directly or indirectly affecting carbon cycling in these ecosystems. These taxa, which react to changes in the water table and associate with roots and, particularly, graminoids, may gain greater biogeochemical influence, as projected higher precipitation rates could lead to an increased abundance of sedges and grasses in boreal fens.
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Campbell DI, Glover-Clark GL, Goodrich JP, Morcom CP, Schipper LA, Wall AM. Large differences in CO 2 emissions from two dairy farms on a drained peatland driven by contrasting respiration rates during seasonal dry conditions. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 760:143410. [PMID: 33213925 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Revised: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Drained peatlands are major sources of CO2 to the atmosphere, yet the effects of land management and hydrological extremes have been little-studied at spatial scales relevant to agricultural enterprises. We measured fluxes of CO2 using the eddy covariance (EC) technique at two adjacent dairy farms on a drained peatland in Aotearoa New Zealand with remaining peat depths 5.5-8 m. One site (SD) had shallow surface drains and mean water table depth (WTD) -657 mm, while the other site (BD) had deep field border drains and mean WTD -838 mm. Net ecosystem CO2 production (NEP) was similar at the two sites when the soils were moist but diverged during late-summer drying, with site BD having 4.56 t C ha-1 greater CO2 emission than site SD over the four-month dry period. Soil drying reduced gross primary production (GPP) at both sites, while ecosystem respiration (ER) was reduced at site SD but not at site BD. The low dry season respiration rates at site SD contributed to near-zero annual NEP, while higher respiration rates at site BD led to annual CO2 loss of -4.95 ± 0.59 t C ha-1 yr-1. Accounting for other imports and exports of carbon, annual net ecosystem carbon balances were -2.23 and -8.47 t C ha-1 yr-1 at sites SD and BD, respectively. It is likely that the contrasting dry season respiration rates resulted from differences in soil physical properties affecting soil moisture vertical redistribution and availability to plants and microbes rather than from the relatively small differences in WTD. These differences could be caused by soil physical disturbances during pasture renewal or paddock recontouring, or time since initial drainage. Therefore, improved soil management might provide practical mitigation against excessive CO2 emissions during dry conditions, including droughts.
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- David I Campbell
- School of Science, Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand.
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- School of Science, Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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- School of Science, Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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- School of Science, Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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- School of Science, Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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- School of Science, Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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Karofeld E, Kaasik A, Vellak K. Growth characteristics of three
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species in restored extracted peatland. Restor Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Edgar Karofeld
- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences University of Tartu Tartu Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences University of Tartu Tartu Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences University of Tartu Tartu Estonia
- Natural History Museum of the University of Tartu Tartu Estonia
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Rastogi A, Antala M, Gąbka M, Rosadziński S, Stróżecki M, Brestic M, Juszczak R. Impact of warming and reduced precipitation on morphology and chlorophyll concentration in peat mosses (Sphagnum angustifolium and S. fallax). Sci Rep 2020; 10:8592. [PMID: 32451474 PMCID: PMC7248058 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65032-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Peatlands are one of the most important ecosystems due to their biodiversity and abundant organic compounds; therefore, it is important to observe how different plant species in peatlands react to changing environmental conditions. Sphagnum spp. are the main component of peatlands and are considered as the creator of conditions favorable for carbon storage in the form of peat. Sphagnum angustifolium and Sphagnum fallax are taxonomically very close species. To examine their adaptability to climate change, we studied the morphology and pigment content of these two species from environmental manipulation sites in Poland, where the environment was continuously manipulated for temperature and precipitation. The warming of peat was induced by using infrared heaters, whereas total precipitation was reduced by a curtain that cuts the nighttime precipitation. Morphology of S. angustifolium stayed under climate manipulation relatively stable. However, the main morphological parameters of S. fallax were significantly affected by precipitation reduction. Thus, this study indicates S. angustifolium is better adapted in comparison to S. fallax for drier and warmer conditions.
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- Anshu Rastogi
- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649, Poznan, Poland.
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- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649, Poznan, Poland
- Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, A. Hlinku 2, 94976, Nitra, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.
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- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, A. Hlinku 2, 94976, Nitra, Slovak Republic
- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources Czech University of Life Sciences, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649, Poznan, Poland
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Characterizing Boreal Peatland Plant Composition and Species Diversity with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. REMOTE SENSING 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/rs11141685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Peatlands, which account for approximately 15% of land surface across the arctic and boreal regions of the globe, are experiencing a range of ecological impacts as a result of climate change. Factors that include altered hydrology resulting from drought and permafrost thaw, rising temperatures, and elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been shown to cause plant community compositional changes. Shifts in plant composition affect the productivity, species diversity, and carbon cycling of peatlands. We used hyperspectral remote sensing to characterize the response of boreal peatland plant composition and species diversity to warming, hydrologic change, and elevated CO2. Hyperspectral remote sensing techniques offer the ability to complete landscape-scale analyses of ecological responses to climate disturbance when paired with plot-level measurements that link ecosystem biophysical properties with spectral reflectance signatures. Working within two large ecosystem manipulation experiments, we examined climate controls on composition and diversity in two types of common boreal peatlands: a nutrient rich fen located at the Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX) in central Alaska, and an ombrotrophic bog located in northern Minnesota at the Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments (SPRUCE) experiment. We found a strong effect of plant functional cover on spectral reflectance characteristics. We also found a positive relationship between species diversity and spectral variation at the APEX field site, which is consistent with other recently published findings. Based on the results of our field study, we performed a supervised land cover classification analysis on an aerial hyperspectral dataset to map peatland plant functional types (PFTs) across an area encompassing a range of different plant communities. Our results underscore recent advances in the application of remote sensing measurements to ecological research, particularly in far northern ecosystems.
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Ratcliffe JL, Campbell DI, Clarkson BR, Wall AM, Schipper LA. Water table fluctuations control CO 2 exchange in wet and dry bogs through different mechanisms. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 655:1037-1046. [PMID: 30577098 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Revised: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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High water tables (WT) stabilise peatland carbon (C) through regulation of biogeochemical processes. The impact of peatland WT on ecosystem function, including C exchange, alters over time, and the factors that cause some peatlands to display resilience and others to undergo degradation are poorly understood. Here we use CO2 flux measurements, measured by eddy covariance, to compare ecosystem function between two raised bogs; one drainage-affected, with a deep and fluctuating water table and the other near-natural, with a shallow and stable water table. The drainage-affected bog was found to be a moderate sink for CO2 (69 g C m-2 yr-1), which was 134 g C m-2 yr-1 less than the near-natural bog (203 g C m-2 yr-1). Greater ecosystem productivity has allowed the drainage-impacted bog to act as a CO2 sink despite higher ecosystem respiration; most likely due to an increase in photosynthetic capacity caused by expansion of ericaceous shrub cover. The tolerance of the vegetation community, particularly the main peat former Empodisma robustum (Restionaceae), to low and fluctuating WT appears to have been key in allowing the site to remain a sink. Despite the current resilience of the ecosystem CO2 sink, we found gross primary production to be limited under both high and low water tables, even in a year with typical rainfall. This is best explained by the limited physiological ability of ericaceous shrubs to tolerate a fluctuating WT. As such we hypothesise that if the WT continues to drop and become even more unstable, then without further vegetation change, a reduction in gross primary production is likely which may in turn cause the site to become a source for CO2.
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- Joshua L Ratcliffe
- Environmental Research Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand.
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- Environmental Research Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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- Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Gate 10 Silverdale Road, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3216, New Zealand
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- Environmental Research Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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- Environmental Research Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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Temporal Variability of Precipitation and Biomass of Alpine Grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau. REMOTE SENSING 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/rs11030360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The timing regimes of precipitation can exert profound impacts on grassland ecosystems. However, it is still unclear how the peak aboveground biomass (AGBpeak) of alpine grasslands responds to the temporal variability of growing season precipitation (GSP) on the northern Tibetan Plateau. Here, the temporal variability of precipitation was defined as the number and intensity of precipitation events as well as the time interval between consecutive precipitation events. We conducted annual field measurements of AGBpeak between 2009 and 2016 at four sites that were representative of alpine meadow, meadow-steppe, alpine steppe, and desert-steppe. Thus, an empirical model was established with the time series of the field-measured AGBpeak and the corresponding enhanced vegetation index (EVI) (R2 = 0.78), which was used to estimate grassland AGBpeak at the regional scale. The relative importance of the three indices of the temporal variability of precipitation, events, intensity, and time interval on grassland AGBpeak was quantified by principal component regression and shown in a red–green–blue (RGB) composition map. The standardized importance values were used to calculate the vegetation sensitivity index to the temporal variability of precipitation (VSIP). Our results showed that the standardized VSIP was larger than 60 for only 15% of alpine grassland pixels and that AGBpeak did not change significantly for more than 60% of alpine grassland pixels over the past decades, which was likely due to the nonsignificant changes in the temporal variability of precipitation in most pixels. However, a U-shaped relationship was found between VSIP and GSP across the four representative grassland types, indicating that the sensitivity of grassland AGBpeak to precipitation was dependent on the types of grassland communities. Moreover, we found that the temporal variability of precipitation explained more of the field-measured AGBpeak variance than did the total amount of precipitation alone at the site scale, which implies that the mechanisms underlying how the temporal variability of precipitation controls the AGBpeak of alpine grasslands should be better understood at the local scale. We hypothesize that alpine grassland plants promptly respond to the temporal variability of precipitation to keep community biomass production more stable over time, but this conclusion should be further tested. Finally, we call for a long-term experimental study that includes multiple natural and anthropogenic factors together, such as warming, nitrogen deposition, and grazing and fencing, to better understand the mechanisms of alpine grassland stability on the Tibetan Plateau.
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McPartland MY, Kane ES, Falkowski MJ, Kolka R, Turetsky MR, Palik B, Montgomery RA. The response of boreal peatland community composition and NDVI to hydrologic change, warming, and elevated carbon dioxide. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2019; 25:93-107. [PMID: 30295397 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Widespread changes in arctic and boreal Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values captured by satellite platforms indicate that northern ecosystems are experiencing rapid ecological change in response to climate warming. Increasing temperatures and altered hydrology are driving shifts in ecosystem biophysical properties that, observed by satellites, manifest as long-term changes in regional NDVI. In an effort to examine the underlying ecological drivers of these changes, we used field-scale remote sensing of NDVI to track peatland vegetation in experiments that manipulated hydrology, temperature, and carbon dioxide (CO2 ) levels. In addition to NDVI, we measured percent cover by species and leaf area index (LAI). We monitored two peatland types broadly representative of the boreal region. One site was a rich fen located near Fairbanks, Alaska, at the Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX), and the second site was a nutrient-poor bog located in Northern Minnesota within the Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments (SPRUCE) experiment. We found that NDVI decreased with long-term reductions in soil moisture at the APEX site, coincident with a decrease in photosynthetic leaf area and the relative abundance of sedges. We observed increasing NDVI with elevated temperature at the SPRUCE site, associated with an increase in the relative abundance of shrubs and a decrease in forb cover. Warming treatments at the SPRUCE site also led to increases in the LAI of the shrub layer. We found no strong effects of elevated CO2 on community composition. Our findings support recent studies suggesting that changes in NDVI observed from satellite platforms may be the result of changes in community composition and ecosystem structure in response to climate warming.
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- Mara Y McPartland
- Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
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- School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
- Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, Michigan
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
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- Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, Minnesota
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, Minnesota
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