Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands
August 24, 2022
High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba data from 103 high-latitude peat archives. We show that 54% of the peatlands have been drying and 32% have been wetting over this period, illustrating the complex ecohydrological dynamics of high latitude peatlands and their highly uncertain responses to a warming climate.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Title | Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-022-32711-4 |
| Authors | Hui Zhang, Minna Valiranta, Graeme Swindles, Marco Aquino-Lopez, Donal Mullan, Ning Tan, Matthew Amesbury, Kirill Babeshko, Kunshan Bao, Anatoly Bobrov, Viktor Chernyshov, Marissa Davies, Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu, Angelica Feurdean, Sarah Finkelstein, Michelle Garneau, Zhengtang Guo, Miriam Jones, Martin Kay, Eric Klein, Maruisz Lamentowicz, Gabriel Magnan, Katarzyna Marcisz, Natalia Mazei, Yuri Mazei, Richard Payne, Nicolas Pelletier, Sanna Piilo, Steve Pratte, Thomas Roland, Damir Saldaev, William Shotyk, Thomas Sim, Thomas Sloan, Michal Slowinski, Julie Talbot, Liam Taylor, Andrey Tsyganov, Sebastian Wetterich, Wei Xing, Yan Zhao |
| Publication Type | Article |
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Series Title | Nature Communications |
| Index ID | 70250035 |
| Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |
| USGS Organization | Florence Bascom Geoscience Center |