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Moderate drop in water table increases peatland vulnerability to post-fire regime shift
Type: Text
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Benscoter, Brian, Flannigan, Michael D., Kettridge, N., Miller, C. A., Sherwood, J. H., Thompson, D. K., Turetsky, Merritt R., Waddington, J. M., Wotton, B. M.
Description: Northern and tropical peatlands represent a globally significant carbon reserve accumulated over thousands
of years of waterlogged conditions. It is unclear whether moderate drying predicted for northern peatlands
will stimulate burning and carbon losses as has occurred in their smaller tropical counterparts where the
carbon legacy has been destabilized due to severe drainage and deep peat… more
Full Text: OPEN SUBJECT AREAS: FIRE ECOLOGY HYDROLOGY Received 12 October 2014 Accepted 31 December 2014 Published 27 January 2015 Moderate drop in water table increases peatland vulnerability to post-fire regime shift N. Kettridge1, M. R. Turetsky2, J. H. …