Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands

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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.

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Zhang, H., Valiranta, M., Swindles, G.T., Aquino-Lopez, M., Mullan, D., Tan, N., Amesbury, M., Babeshko, K., Bao, K., Bobrov, A., Chernyshov, V., Davies, M.A., Diaconu, A., Feurdean, A., Finkelstein, S.A., Garneau, M., Guo, Z., Jones, M.C., Kay, M., Klein, E.S., Lamentowicz, M., Magnan, G., Marcisz, K., Mazei, N., Mazei, Y., Payne, R., Pelletier, N., Piilo, S., Pratte, S., Roland, T.P., Saldaev, D., Shotyk, W., Sim, T.G., Sloan, T.J., Slowinski, M., Talbot, J., Taylor, L., Tsyganov, A.N., Wetterich, S., Xing, W., and Zhao, Y., 2022, Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands: Nature Communications, v. 13, 4959, 7 p., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32711-4.

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.
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