Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget
About 60% of the European wetlands are located in the European part of Russia. Nevertheless, data on methane emissions from wetlands of that area are absent. Here we present results of methane emission measurements for two climatically different years from a boreal peatland complex in European Russi...
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| author | Julia Schneider Hermann F Jungkunst Ulrike Wolf Peter Schreiber Michal Gažovič Mikhail Miglovets Oleg Mikhaylov Dennis Grunwald Stefan Erasmi Martin Wilmking Lars Kutzbach |
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| description | About 60% of the European wetlands are located in the European part of Russia. Nevertheless, data on methane emissions from wetlands of that area are absent. Here we present results of methane emission measurements for two climatically different years from a boreal peatland complex in European Russia. Winter fluxes were well within the range of what has been reported for the peatlands of other boreal regions before, but summer fluxes greatly exceeded the average range of 5–80 mg CH _4 m ^−2 d ^−1 for the circumpolar boreal zone. Half of the measured fluxes ranged between 150 and 450 mg CH _4 m ^−2 d ^−1 . Extrapolation of our data to the whole boreal zone of European Russia shows that theses emissions could amount to up to 2.7 ± 1.1 Tg CH _4 a ^−1 , corresponding to 69% of the annual emissions from European wetlands or 33% of the total annual natural European methane emission. In 2008, climatic conditions corresponded to the long term mean, whereas the summer of 2011 was warmer and noticeably drier. Counterintuitively, these conditions led to even higher CH _4 emissions, with peaks up to two times higher than the values measured in 2008. As Russian peatlands dominate the areal extend of wetlands in Europe and are characterized by very high methane fluxes to the atmosphere, it is evident, that sound European methane budgeting will only be achieved with more insight into Russian peatlands. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4667760140314f8ebc76d38870ff52662023-08-09T14:16:36ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262016-01-0111101400410.1088/1748-9326/11/1/014004Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budgetJulia Schneider0Hermann F Jungkunst1Ulrike Wolf2Peter Schreiber3Michal Gažovič4Mikhail Miglovets5Oleg Mikhaylov6Dennis Grunwald7Stefan Erasmi8Martin Wilmking9Lars Kutzbach10Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau , Fortstr. 7, D-76829 Landau, GermanyInstitute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau , Fortstr. 7, D-76829 Landau, GermanyThünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Bundesallee 50, D-38116 Braunschweig, GermanyInstitute of Soil Science, Klima Campus, University of Hamburg , Allende-Platz 2, D-20146 Hamburg, GermanyDepartment of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Skogmarksgränd, SE-90183 Umeå, SwedenInstitute of Biology, Komi SC UrD RAS, 28 Kommunisticheskaya st., 167982 Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, RussiaInstitute of Biology, Komi SC UrD RAS, 28 Kommunisticheskaya st., 167982 Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, RussiaInstitute of Geography, Georg-August University of Göttingen , Goldschmidtstr. 5, D-37077 Göttingen, GermanyInstitute of Geography, Georg-August University of Göttingen , Goldschmidtstr. 5, D-37077 Göttingen, GermanyInstitute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald , Grimmer Straße 88, D-17487 Greifswald, GermanyInstitute of Soil Science, Klima Campus, University of Hamburg , Allende-Platz 2, D-20146 Hamburg, GermanyAbout 60% of the European wetlands are located in the European part of Russia. Nevertheless, data on methane emissions from wetlands of that area are absent. Here we present results of methane emission measurements for two climatically different years from a boreal peatland complex in European Russia. Winter fluxes were well within the range of what has been reported for the peatlands of other boreal regions before, but summer fluxes greatly exceeded the average range of 5–80 mg CH _4 m ^−2 d ^−1 for the circumpolar boreal zone. Half of the measured fluxes ranged between 150 and 450 mg CH _4 m ^−2 d ^−1 . Extrapolation of our data to the whole boreal zone of European Russia shows that theses emissions could amount to up to 2.7 ± 1.1 Tg CH _4 a ^−1 , corresponding to 69% of the annual emissions from European wetlands or 33% of the total annual natural European methane emission. In 2008, climatic conditions corresponded to the long term mean, whereas the summer of 2011 was warmer and noticeably drier. Counterintuitively, these conditions led to even higher CH _4 emissions, with peaks up to two times higher than the values measured in 2008. As Russian peatlands dominate the areal extend of wetlands in Europe and are characterized by very high methane fluxes to the atmosphere, it is evident, that sound European methane budgeting will only be achieved with more insight into Russian peatlands.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/014004European budgetmethaneboreal peatlandsupscaling |
| spellingShingle | Julia Schneider Hermann F Jungkunst Ulrike Wolf Peter Schreiber Michal Gažovič Mikhail Miglovets Oleg Mikhaylov Dennis Grunwald Stefan Erasmi Martin Wilmking Lars Kutzbach Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget Environmental Research Letters European budget methane boreal peatlands upscaling |
| title | Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget |
| title_full | Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget |
| title_fullStr | Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget |
| title_full_unstemmed | Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget |
| title_short | Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget |
| title_sort | russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural european methane budget |
| topic | European budget methane boreal peatlands upscaling |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/014004 |
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