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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-917-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-917-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Research article
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08 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 08 Feb 2021

Drought years in peatland rewetting: rapid vegetation succession can maintain the net CO2 sink function

Florian Beyer, Florian Jansen, Gerald Jurasinski, Marian Koch, Birgit Schröder, and Franziska Koebsch

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Increasing drought frequency can jeopardize the restoration of the CO2 sink function in degraded peatlands. We explored the effect of the summer drought in 2018 on vegetation development and CO2 exchange in a rewetted fen. Drought triggered a rapid spread of new vegetation whose CO2 assimilation could partially outweigh the drought-related rise in respiratory CO2 loss. Our study shows important regulatory mechanisms of a rewetted fen to maintain its net CO2 sink function even in a very dry year.
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