Carbon respiration from subsurface peat accelerated by climate warming in the subarctic
@article{Dorrepaal2009CarbonRF, title={Carbon respiration from subsurface peat accelerated by climate warming in the subarctic}, author={Ellen Dorrepaal and Sylvia Toet and Richard S. P. Logtestijn and Elferra M. Swart and Martine J. van de Weg and Terry V. Callaghan and Rien Aerts}, journal={Nature}, year={2009}, volume={460}, pages={616-619} }
Among the largest uncertainties in current projections of future climate is the feedback between the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate. Northern peatlands contain one-third of the world’s soil organic carbon, equivalent to more than half the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Climate-warming-induced acceleration of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through enhanced respiration of thick peat deposits, centuries to millennia old, may form a strong positive carbon cycle–climate feedback. The long…
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