PLoS ONE, 2020 Increased periods of prolonged droughts followed by severe precipitation events are expected throughout South America due to climate change. Freshwater sediments are especially sensitive to these changing climate conditions.
José R Paranaíba +12 more
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Estimating taxon‐specific population dynamics in diverse microbial communities
Ecosphere, 2018 Understanding how population‐level dynamics contribute to ecosystem‐level processes is a primary focus of ecological research and has led to important breakthroughs in the ecology of macroscopic organisms.
Benjamin J. Koch +11 more
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Impact of drying, freezing and re-wetting events soil leachate in acidic versus calcareous soils [PDF]
Journal of the Serbian Chemical SocietyThis study investigates the impact of drying-rewetting and freezing-rewetting events on soil leachate ion composition across two contrasting geochemical settings through a series of controlled laboratory experiments.
Hukić Emira +6 more
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The Response of Microbial Communities to Peatland Drainage and Rewetting. A Review
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Peatlands are significant global carbon stores and play an important role in mediating the flux of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. During the 20th century substantial areas of northern peatlands were drained to repurpose the land for industrial or
Ezra Kitson, Nicholle G. A. Bell
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Community perceptions of peat rewetting in Tumbang Nusa Village, Indonesia [PDF]
Mires and PeatIndonesia is committed to rewetting peatlands to reduce the risk of fires and to decrease national greenhouse gas emissions. The three main approaches currently being implemented for rewetting peatlands in Indonesia are: 1) installing dams in drainage ...
Aysha Fleming +11 more
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Towards large-scale paludiculture: addressing the challenges of biomass harvesting in wet and rewetted peatlands [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2015 Peatland drainage causes peat degradation, which results in high greenhouse gas emissions and ongoing subsidence of the ground surface. To avoid further land degradation, the rewetting of peatlands is essential. The new land use concept of paludiculture -
C. Schröder +4 more
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Flooding of an abandoned fen by beaver led to highly variable greenhouse gas emissions [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2020 Rewetting by beaver is reported from many European peatlands and especially from Belarus, which harbours vast abandoned peat extraction sites and a large beaver population.
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Towards developing IPCC methane ‘emission factors’ for peatlands (organic soils) [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2012 (1) Huge reductions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) effluxes can be attained by rewetting drained peatlands, but this will increase methane (CH4) effluxes.(2) The scientific data base for methane effluxes from peatlands is much larger ...
J. Couwenberg, C. Fritz
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Where can rewetting of forested peatland reduce extreme flows? Model experiment on the hydrology of Sweden [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System SciencesHistorical drainage to improve forestry practices has resulted in around 7×105 ha drained forested peatland in Sweden. This has reduced the storage of water in the landscape and may impact greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, and the damping of ...
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Does peatland rewetting mitigate flooding from extreme rainfall events? [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System SciencesPristine peatlands are believed to play an important role in regulating hydrological extremes because they can act as reservoirs for rainwater and release it gradually during dry periods.
S. Karimi +4 more
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