Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands

  • Hui Zhang,
  • Minna Väliranta,
  • Graeme T. Swindles,
  • Marco A. Aquino-López,
  • Donal Mullan,
  • Ning Tan,
  • Matthew Amesbury,
  • Kirill V. Babeshko,
  • Kunshan Bao,
  • Anatoly Bobrov,
  • Viktor Chernyshov,
  • Marissa A. Davies,
  • Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu,
  • Angelica Feurdean,
  • Sarah A. Finkelstein,
  • Michelle Garneau,
  • Zhengtang Guo,
  • Miriam C. Jones,
  • Martin Kay,
  • Eric S. Klein,
  • Mariusz Lamentowicz,
  • Gabriel Magnan,
  • Katarzyna Marcisz,
  • Natalia Mazei,
  • Yuri Mazei,
  • Richard Payne,
  • Nicolas Pelletier,
  • Sanna R. Piilo,
  • Steve Pratte,
  • Thomas Roland,
  • Damir Saldaev,
  • William Shotyk,
  • Thomas G. Sim,
  • Thomas J. Sloan,
  • Michał Słowiński,
  • Julie Talbot,
  • Liam Taylor,
  • Andrey N. Tsyganov,
  • Sebastian Wetterich,
  • Wei Xing,
  • Yan Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32711-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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A recent synthesis study found 54% of the high-latitude peatlands have been drying and 32% have been wetting over the past centuries, illustrating their complex ecohydrological dynamics and highly uncertain responses to a warming climate.