Decadal and long-term boreal soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration rates
across a variety of ecosystems

Manies, Kristen L.; Harden, Jennifer W.; Fuller, Christopher C.; Turetsky, Merritt R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4315-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 15

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4315-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4315-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 15

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01 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 01 Aug 2016

Decadal and long-term boreal soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration rates across a variety of ecosystems

Kristen L. Manies, Jennifer W. Harden, Christopher C. Fuller, and Merritt R. Turetsky

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Soil Data for a Vegetation Gradient Located at Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Site, Interior Alaska Kristen L. Manies, Jennifer W. Harden, Christopher C. Fuller, Xiaomei Xu, and John P. McGeehin https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161034

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Boreal soils are important to the global C cycle. We need to understand what controls how C accumulates and is lost from this soil. To help we examined C & N accumulation rates for five boreal ecosystems. Most ecosystems were similar. But the rich fen had higher long-term C & N accumulation rates, likely due to differences in nutrient cycling & because it burns less. Therefore, shifts among ecosystems will not change regional C & N dynamics much, unless there is a shift to or from a rich fen.