Peat carbon stocks in the southern Mackenzie River Basin: Uncertainties revealed in a high-resolution case study

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1221-1232

  Beilman, David W ^a,b,e   Vitt, Dale H ^c   Bhatti, Jagtar S ^a   Forest, Silvie ^d  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boreal; Canada; Carbon stocks; Ordinary kriging; Peatlands; Soil carbon; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PEATLAND; RIVER BASIN; SOIL CARBON; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; MACKENZIE BASIN; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 43349085310     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01565.x     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Apps MJ, Kurz WA, Luxmore RJ et al. (1993) Boreal forests and tundra. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 70, 39-53.
2. Batjes NH (2002) Revised soil parameter estimates for soil types of the world. Soil Use and Management, 18, 232-235.
3. Bauer IE, Bhatti JS, Cash KJ, Tarnocai C, Robinson SD (2006) Developing statistical models to estimate the carbon density of organic soils. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 86, 295-304.
4. Bauer IE, Gignac LD, Vitt DH (2003) Development of a peatland complex in boreal western Canada: Lateral site expansion and local variability in vegetation succession and long-term peat accumulation. Canadian Journal of Botany, 81, 833-847.
5. Beilman DW (2001) Plant community and diversity change due to localized permafrost dynamics in bogs of western Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany, 79, 983-993.
6. Belyea LR, Baird AJ (2006) Beyond "the limits to peat bog growth": Cross-scale feeback in peatland development. Ecological Monographs, 76, 299-322.
7. Bhatti JS, Apps MJ, Tarnocai C (2002) Estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in central Canada using three different approaches. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 32, 805-812.
8. Bhatti JS, Errington RC, Bauer IE, Hurdle PA (2006) Carbon stock trends along forested peatland margins in central Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 86, 321-333.
9. Blodau C, Roulet NT, Heitmann T, Stewart H, Beer J, Lafleur P, Moore TR (2007) Belowground carbon turnover in a temperature ombrotrophic bog. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB1021.
10. Botch MS, Kobak KI, Vinson TS, Kolchugina TP (1995) Carbon pools and accumulation in peatlands of the former Soviet Union. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 9, 37-46.
11. Bridgam SD, Megonigal JP, Keller JK, Bliss NB, Trettin T (2006) The carbon balance of North American wetlands. Wetlands, 26, 889-916.
12. Carabajal C, Harding DJ (2006) SRTM C-band and ICES at laser altimetry elevation comparisons as a function of tree cover and relief. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 72, 287-298.
13. 4 in a Holocene peatland on Dartmoor, southwest England. Geology, 27, 539-542.
14. Charman DJ, Aravena R, Warner BG (1994) Carbon dynamics in a forested peatland in north-eastern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Ecology, 82, 55-62.
15. Chasar LS, Chanton JP, Glaser PH, Siegel DI, Rivers JS (2000) Radiocarbon and stable carbon evidence for transport and transformation of dissolved organic carbon, dissolved inorganic carbon, and CH 4 in a northern Minnesota peatland. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14, 1095-1108.
16. Christensen JH, Hewitson B, Busuoic A et al. (2007) Regional climate projections. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (eds Solomon S, Qin D, Manning M et al.), pp. 847-940. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
17. Clymo RS, Turunen J, Tolonen K (1998) Carbon accumulation in peatland. Oikos, 81, 368-388.
18. Forest SF (2001) Peatland management and conservation in Boreal Alberta, Canada. MSc thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 160pp.
19. Friedlingstein PP, Cox P, Betts R et al. (2006) Climate-carbon cycle feedback analysis: Results from the C4MIP model intercomparison. Journal of Climate, 19, 3337-3353.
20. Frolking S, Roulet NT, Moore TR, Richard PJH, Lavoie M, Muller SD (2001) Modeling northern peatland decomposition and peat accumulation. Ecosystems, 4, 479-498.
21. Garnett MH, Ineson P, Stevenson AC, Howard DC (2001) Terrestrial organic carbon storage in a British moorland. Global Change Biology, 7, 375-388.
22. Gignac LD, Halsey LA, Vitt DH (2000) A bioclimatic model for the distribution of Sphagnum - dominated peatlands in North America under present climatic conditions. Journal of Biogeography, 27, 1139-1151.
23. Gorham E (1991) Northern peatlands role in the carbon cycle and probable responses to climatic warming. Ecological Applications, 1, 182-195.
24. Goulden ML, Wofsy SC, Harden JW et al. (1998) Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw. Science, 279, 214-217.
25. 2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models. Nature, 415, 626-630.
26. Halsey LA, Vitt DH, Bauer IE (1998) Peatland initiation during the Holocene in continental western Canada. Climatic Change, 40, 315-342.
27. Halsey LA, Vitt DH, Beilman DW, Crow S, Mihelcic S, Wells R (2003) Alberta Wetland Inventory Standards Version 2.0. Publication no. T/031. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. Edmonton, AB, Canada.
28. Kauppi PE, Posch M, Hanninen P et al. (1997) Carbon reservoirs in peatlands and forests in the boreal regions of Finland. Silva Fennica, 31, 13-25.
29. Kuhry P, Halsey LA, Bayley SE, Vitt DH (1992) Peatland development in relation to Holocene climatic change in Manitoba and Saskatchewan (Canada). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29, 1070-1090.
30. 2 exchange at a bog peatland. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 3071-3081.
31. Lafleur PM, Roulet NT, Bubier JL, Frolking S, Moore TR (2003) Interannual variability in the peatland-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange at an ombrotrophic bog. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17.
32. Makila M (1994) Calculation of the energy content of mires on the basis of peat properties. Geological Survey of Finland, Report of Investigation, 121, 1-73.
33. McLaughlin J (2004) Carbon assessment in boreal wetlands of Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario Forest Research Institute. Paper no. 158, 79pp.
34. Mueller TG, Pearce FJ (2003) Soil carbon maps: Enhancing spatial estimates with simple terrain attributes at multiple scales. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 67, 258-267.
35. Prentice IC, Farquhar GD, Fasham ML et al. (2001) The carbon cycle and atmospheric carbon dioxide. In: Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (eds Houghton JT et al.), pp. 185-237. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
36. R Core Development Team (2004) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
37. Ribeiro PJ, Diggle PJ (2001) geoR: A package for geostatistical analysis. R-NEWS, 1, 15-18.
38. Roulet NT, Lafleur PM, Richard PJH, Moore TR, Humphries ER, Bubier J (2007) Contemporary carbon balance and late Holocene carbon accumulation in a northern peatland. Global Change Biology, 13, 397-411.
39. Schimel DS, House JI, Hibbard KA et al. (2001) Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems. Nature, 414, 169-172.
40. Serreze MC, Walsh JE, Chapin SI et al. (2000) Observational evidence of recent change in the northern high-latitude environment. Climatic Change, 46, 159-207.
41. Sheng Y, Smith LC, MacDonald GM et al. (2004) A high-resolution GIS-based inventory of the West Siberian peat carbon pool. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18.
42. Tarnocai CI, Kettles IM, Lacelle B (2000) Peatlands of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3834.
43. Trumbore SE, Harden JW (1997) Accumulation and turnover of carbon in organic and mineral soils of the BOREAS northern study area. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 28,817-28,830.
44. Turunen J, Tahvanainen T, Tolonen K (2001) Carbon accumulation in West Siberian mires, Russia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15, 285-296.
45. Turunen J, Tomppo E, Tolonen K, Reinikainen A (2002) Estimating carbon accumulation rates in undrained mires in Finland - application to boreal and subarctic regions. The Holocene, 12, 69-80.
46. Vitt DH (2006) Peatlands: Canada's past and future carbon legacy. In: Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems (eds Bhatti JS, Lal R, Apps MJ, Price MA), pp. 201-216. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
47. Vitt DH, Halsey LA, Bauer IE, Campbell C (2000) Spatial and temporal trends in carbon storage of peatlands of continental western Canada through the Holocene. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37, 683-693.
48. Vitt DH, Halsey LA, Nicholson BJ (2005) The Mackenzie River basin. In: The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation (eds Fraser LH, Keddy PA), pp. 166-202. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
49. Webster R, Oliver M (2001) Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists. Wiley, Chichester, UK.
50. Yu Z, Turetsky MR, Campbell D, Vitt DH (2001) Modelling long-term peatland dynamics. II. Processes and rates as inferred from litter and peat-core data. Ecological Modelling, 145, 159-173.
51. Zoltai SC, Siltanen RM, Johnson RD (2000) A wetland database for the western boreal, subarctic, and arctic regions of Canada, NOR-X-368. Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada.