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CO2 and CH4 exchanges between moist moss tundra and atmosphere on Kapp Linné, Svalbard
Anders Lindroth
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund
University, Lund, Sweden
Norbert Pirk
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik,
Iceland
Christian Stiegler
Bioclimatology, Georg-August Universität Göttingen,
Göttingen, Germany
Leif Klemedtsson
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg,
Sweden
Mats B. Nilsson
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2607–2649, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2607-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2607-2021, 2021
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We measured the fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane between a moist moss tundra and the atmosphere on Svalbard in order to better understand how such ecosystems are affecting the climate and vice versa. We found that the system was a small sink of carbon dioxide and a small source of methane. These fluxes are small in comparison with other tundra ecosystems in the high Arctic. Analysis of temperature sensitivity showed that respiration was more sensitive than photosynthesis above about 6 ℃.
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