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dc.contributor.authorRatcliffe, Joshua Leeen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorAndersen, Roxaneen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Russellen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorNewton, Anthonyen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, David I.en_NZ
dc.contributor.authorMauquoy, Dmitrien_NZ
dc.contributor.authorPayne, Richarden_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-03T01:57:35Z
dc.date.available2017en_NZ
dc.date.available2017-10-03T01:57:35Z
dc.date.issued2017en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationRatcliffe, J., Andersen, R., Anderson, R., Newton, A., Campbell, D., Mauquoy, D., & Payne, R. (2017). Contemporary carbon fluxes do not reflect the long-term carbon balance for an Atlantic blanket bog. The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617715689en
dc.identifier.issn0959-6836en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/11368
dc.description.abstractPeatlands are one of the largest terrestrial stores of carbon. Carbon exchange in peatlands is often assessed solely by measurement of contemporary fluxes; however, these fluxes frequently indicate a much stronger sink strength than that measured by the rate of C accumulation in the peat profile over longer timescales. Here we compare profile-based measurements of C accumulation with the published net ecosystem C balance for the largest peatland area in Britain, the Flow Country of northern Scotland. We estimate the long-term rate of C accumulation to be 15.4 g C m⁻² yr⁻¹ for a site where a recent eddy covariance study has suggested contemporary C uptake more than six times greater (99.37 g C m⁻² yr⁻¹). Our estimate is supported by two further long-term C accumulation records from nearby sites which give comparable results. We demonstrate that a strong contemporary C sink strength may not equate to a strong long-term sink and explore reasons for this disparity. We recommend that contemporary C sequestration should be viewed in the context of the long-term ecological drivers, such as fires, ecohydrological feedbacks and the changing quality of litter inputs.en_NZ
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage
dc.rightsThis is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: The Holocene. © The Author(s) 2017.
dc.subjectCore scanningen_NZ
dc.subjectFlow countryen_NZ
dc.subjectITRAXen_NZ
dc.subjectLORCAen_NZ
dc.subjectPeaten_NZ
dc.subjectScotlanden_NZ
dc.subjectTephrochronologyen_NZ
dc.titleContemporary carbon fluxes do not reflect the long-term carbon balance for an Atlantic blanket bogen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0959683617715689en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfThe Holoceneen_NZ
pubs.elements-id200360
pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_NZ
pubs.publisher-urlhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959683617715689en_NZ
dc.identifier.eissn1477-0911en_NZ


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