Publication Date:
2023-12-23
Description:
This study aimed at investigating the role of vegetation components, sedges, dwarf shrubs, and Sphagnum mosses, in methane fluxes of a boreal fen under natural and experimental water level drawdown conditions. We measured the fluxes during growing seasons 2001-2004 using the static chamber technique in a field experiment where the role of the ecosystem components was assessed via plant removal treatments. The first year was a calibration year after which the water level drawdown and vegetation removal treatments were applied. Under natural water level conditions, plant-mediated fluxes comprised 68 %-78% of the mean growing season flux (1.73 +/- 0.17 g CH4 m-2 month-1 from June to September), of which Sphagnum mosses and sedges accounted for one-fourth and three-fourths, respectively. The presence of dwarf shrubs, on the other hand, had a slightly attenuating effect on the fluxes. In water level drawdown conditions, the mean flux was close to zero (0.03 +/- 0:03 g CH4 m-2 month-1) and the presence and absence of the plant groups had a negligible effect.
Keywords:
Climate change; DATE/TIME; dwarf shrubs; Lakkasuo; Methane; Methane, flux per season; Net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide per season; Peatland; Plot; sedges; sphagnum; Sphagnum, cover; Treatment
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 867 data points
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