Carbon dioxide flux and net primary production of a boreal treed bog: Responses to warming and water-table-lowering simulations of climate change

Munir, T. M.; Perkins, M.; Kaing, E.; Strack, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1091-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1091-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1091-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

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20 Feb 2015

Research article |

| 20 Feb 2015

Carbon dioxide flux and net primary production of a boreal treed bog: Responses to warming and water-table-lowering simulations of climate change

T. M. Munir, M. Perkins, E. Kaing, and M. Strack

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RC C5963: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Oct 2014
- AC C7068: 'Authors reply for referee # 1', Tariq Munir, 02 Dec 2014
RC C6092: 'Comments for Munir et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Oct 2014
- AC C7079: 'Authors reply for referee # 2', Tariq Munir, 02 Dec 2014

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AR by Tariq Munir on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2015) Manuscript

Short summary

Climate-induced drying and warming in continental bogs is expected to initially accelerate carbon losses via ecosystem respiration, but persistent drought and warming is expected to restore the peatland’s original carbon sink function as a result of the shifts in vegetation composition and productivity between the microforms and increased NPP of trees over time. Thus, the treed bogs are climate-sensitive but temporally adaptive ecosystems that have the potential to tolerate the changing climate.