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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5693-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5693-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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23 Nov 2020
Research article |
| 23 Nov 2020
| 23 Nov 2020
Modelling the habitat preference of two key Sphagnum species in a poor fen as controlled by capitulum water content
Jinnan Gong
School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P. O. Box
111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
Nigel Roulet
Department of Geography, McGill University and Centre for Climate and
Global Change Research, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Montréal,
Québec H3A 2K6, Canada
Steve Frolking
School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P. O. Box
111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, and Department
of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Heli Peltola
School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P. O. Box
111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
Anna M. Laine
School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P. O. Box
111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, P. O. Box
3000, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Nicola Kokkonen
School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P. O. Box
111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P. O. Box
111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
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- Ecohydrological implications of the variability of soil hydrophysical properties between two Sphagnum moss microforms and the impact of different sample heights V. Golubev et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126956
- Comparing UAS LiDAR and Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry for Peatland Mapping and Virtual Reality (VR) Visualization M. Kalacska et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones5020036
- Numerical assessment of morphological and hydraulic properties of moss, lichen and peat from a permafrost peatland S. Cazaurang et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-431-2023
- Functional diversity and trait composition of vascular plant and Sphagnum moss communities during peatland succession across land uplift regions A. Laine et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13601
- Variation in Water-Holding Capacity in Sphagnum Species Depends on Both Plant and Colony Structure W. van de Koot et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13081061
- Intraspecific trait variability in four geographically widespread peatland plant species in Canada R. Kendall et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2025.152797
- Moss-driven facilitation promotes species coexistence in Andean páramo peatlands L. Ávila-Rodríguez et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-025-00347-x
- SARTRAM: SAR-based trapezoid model for water table depth monitoring in restored peatlands L. Jukna et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2026.2660547
- The most complete Holocene peat record from Central Europe: multi-proxy reconstruction of postglacial wetness changes and climate events from Linje peatland, Poland E. Poolma et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1933-2025
- Impact of long‐term water level drawdown on functional plant trait composition of northern peatlands A. Laine et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13883
- Biochemical traits enhance the trait concept in Sphagnum ecology A. Sytiuk et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09119
- Sphagnum and herbaceous net ecosystem exchanges in a Pyrenean peatland: a long-term study using the ISBA model R. Garisoain et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-3407-2026
- Joint species distribution modeling with competition for space J. Kettunen et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2830
- Modelling the ecohydrological plasticity in soil hydraulic properties of Sphagnum mosses C. McCarter et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2701
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In this study, which combined a field and lab experiment with modelling, we developed a process-based model for simulating dynamics within peatland moss communities. The model is useful because Sphagnum mosses are key engineers in peatlands; their response to changes in climate via altered hydrology controls the feedback of peatland biogeochemistry to climate. Our work showed that moss capitulum traits related to water retention are the mechanism controlling moss layer dynamics in peatlands.
In this study, which combined a field and lab experiment with modelling, we developed a...
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