Modelling long-term blanket peatland development in eastern Scotland

Swinnen, Ward; Broothaerts, Nils; Verstraeten, Gert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3977-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3977-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3977-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

Research article

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17 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 17 Oct 2019

Modelling long-term blanket peatland development in eastern Scotland

Ward Swinnen, Nils Broothaerts, and Gert Verstraeten

Data sets

Soil coring list W. Swinnen https://doi.org/10.17632/pxszz2wzny.1

Soil coring description W. Swinnen https://doi.org/10.17632/ms484mrjj5.1

Short summary

In this study, a new model is presented, which was specifically designed to study the development and carbon storage of blanket peatlands since the last ice age. In the past, two main processes (declining forest cover and rising temperatures) have been proposed as drivers of blanket peatland development on the British Isles. The simulations performed in this study support the temperature hypothesis for the blanket peatlands in the Cairngorms Mountains of central Scotland.