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Open AccessSix Decades of Changes in Pool Characteristics on a Concentric-Patterned Raised Bog
Raised bogs are wetland ecosystems which, under the right climatic conditions, feature patterns of pool hollows and hummock ridges. The relative cover and the spatial arrangement of pool and ridge microforms a...
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Open AccessFirst estimates of fine root production in tropical peat swamp and terra firme forests of the central Congo Basin
Tropical peatlands are carbon-dense ecosystems because they accumulate partially-decomposed plant material. A substantial fraction of this organic matter may derive from fine root production (FRP). However, fe...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin
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Open AccessHydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin
The forested swamps of the central Congo Basin store approximately 30 billion metric tonnes of carbon in peat1,2. Little is known about the vulnerability of these carbon stocks. Here we investigate this vulnerabi...
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Author Correction: Map** peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data
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Map** peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data
The world’s largest tropical peatland complex is found in the central Congo Basin. However, there is a lack of in situ measurements to understand the peatland’s distribution and the amount of carbon stored in ...
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Imminent loss of climate space for permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia
Human-induced climate warming by 2100 is expected to thaw large expanses of northern permafrost peatlands. However, the spatio-temporal dynamics of permafrost peatland thaw remain uncertain due to complex perm...
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Wetter is better for peat carbon
The role of peatlands in future climate change is uncertain because peat-derived greenhouse gas emissions are difficult to predict. Now research shows that reduced methane emissions from drying peatlands are l...
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Open AccessMisinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat
Peatlands are globally important stores of carbon (C) that contain a record of how their rates of C accumulation have changed over time. Recently, near-surface peat has been used to assess the effect of curren...
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Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries
Climate warming and human impacts are thought to be causing peatlands to dry, potentially converting them from sinks to sources of carbon. However, it is unclear whether the hydrological status of peatlands ha...
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Open AccessEnRoot: a narrow-diameter, inexpensive and partially 3D-printable minirhizotron for imaging fine root production
Fine root production is one of the least well understood components of the carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems. Minirhizotrons allow accurate and non-destructive sampling of fine root production. Small and ...
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Hotspots of peatland-derived potable water use identified by global analysis
Peatlands cover approximately 2.84% of the Earth’s land surface and store around 10% of all non-glacial freshwater. However, the contribution of peatlands to global potable water resources is unclear because m...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Solar cycles or random processes? Evaluating solar variability in Holocene climate records
Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 23961 published online: 05 April 2016; updated: 27 June 2016. A coding error in the Monte Carlo procedure for the determination of critical values in running correlation a...
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Open AccessSolar cycles or random processes? Evaluating solar variability in Holocene climate records
Many studies have reported evidence for solar-forcing of Holocene climate change across a range of archives. These studies have compared proxy-climate data with records of solar variability (e.g. 14C or 10Be), or...
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Open AccessThe long-term fate of permafrost peatlands under rapid climate warming
Permafrost peatlands contain globally important amounts of soil organic carbon, owing to cold conditions which suppress anaerobic decomposition. However, climate warming and permafrost thaw threaten the stabil...
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Assessment of an integrated peat-harvesting and reclamation method: peatland-atmosphere carbon fluxes and vegetation recovery
We document a two-year experimental trial of a recently-developed integrated peat-harvesting and reclamation technique at a poor fen in northern Ontario, Canada. We removed and conserved the uppermost ~0.3 m o...
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Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization
The ocean's importance in storing carbon is widely recognized, as is the importance of iron as a limiting nutrient in much of the global ocean. But quantifying the increase in long-term carbon storage in respo...
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Louis Agassiz's Arguments against Darwinism in His Additions to the French Translation of the Essay on Classification
