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Lena Ström

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Effects of N and P fertilization on the greenhouse gas exchange in two northern peatlands with contrasting N deposition rates

Författare

  • Magnus Lund
  • Torben Christensen
  • Mikhail Mastepanov
  • Anders Lindroth
  • Lena Ström

Summary, in English

Peatlands are important ecosystems in the context of biospheric feedback to climate change, due to the large storage of organic C in peatland soils. Nitrogen deposition and increased nutrient availability in soils following climate warming may cause changes in these ecosystems affecting greenhouse gas exchange. We have conducted an N and P fertilization experiment in two Swedish bogs subjected to high and low background N deposition, and measured the exchange of CO2, CH4 and N2O using the closed chamber technique. During the second year of fertilization, both gross primary production and ecosystem respiration were significantly increased by N addition in the northernmost site where background N deposition is low, while gross primary production was stimulated by P addition in the southern high N deposition site. In addition, a short-term response in respiration was seen following fertilization in both sites, probably associated with rapid growth of nutrient-limited soil microorganisms. No treatment effect was seen on the CH4 exchange, while N2O emission peaks were detected in N fertilized plots indicating the importance of taking N2O into consideration under increased N availability. In a longer term, increased nutrient availability will cause changes in plant composition, which will further act to regulate the peatland greenhouse gas exchange.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2135-2144

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Biogeosciences

Volym

6

Issue

10

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Copernicus GmbH

Ämne

  • Physical Geography

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Climate Initiative

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1726-4189