Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands
Nature Communications
By: Hui Zhang, Minna Valiranta, Graeme T. Swindles, Marco Aquino-Lopez, Donal Mullan, Ning Tan, Matthew Amesbury, Kirill Babeshko, Kunshan Bao, Anatoly Bobrov, Viktor Chernyshov, Marissa A. Davies, Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu, Angelica Feurdean, Sarah A. Finkelstein, Michelle Garneau, Zhengtang Guo, Miriam C. Jones, Martin Kay, Eric S. Klein, Maruisz Lamentowicz, Gabriel Magnan, Katarzyna Marcisz, Natalia Mazei, Yuri Mazei, Richard Payne, Nicolas Pelletier, Sanna Piilo, Steve Pratte, Thomas P. Roland, Damir Saldaev, William Shotyk, Thomas G. Sim, Thomas J Sloan, Michal Slowinski, Julie Talbot, Liam Taylor, Andrey N. Tsyganov, Sebastian Wetterich, Wei Xing, and Yan Zhao
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Abstract
High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba data from 103 high-latitude peat archives. We show that 54% of the peatlands have been drying and 32% have been wetting over this period, illustrating the complex ecohydrological dynamics of high latitude peatlands and their highly uncertain responses to a warming climate.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands |
| Series title | Nature Communications |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-022-32711-4 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Publication Date | August 24, 2022 |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Nature |
| Contributing office(s) | Florence Bascom Geoscience Center |
| Description | 4959, 7 p. |