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Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-313-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-313-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
Research article
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19 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 19 Jan 2022

Net soil carbon balance in afforested peatlands and separating autotrophic and heterotrophic soil CO2 effluxes

Renée Hermans, Rebecca McKenzie, Roxane Andersen, Yit Arn Teh, Neil Cowie, and Jens-Arne Subke

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Peatlands are a significant global carbon store, which can be compromised by drainage and afforestation. We measured the peat decomposition under a 30-year-old drained forest plantation: 115 ± 16 g C m−2 yr−1, ca. 40 % of total soil respiration. Considering input of litter from trees, our results indicate that the soils in these 30-year-old drained and afforested peatlands are a net sink for C, since substantially more C enters the soil as organic matter than is decomposed heterotrophically.
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