Modeling impacts of changes in temperature and water table on C gas fluxes in an Alaskan peatland: Modeling C Gas Fluxes in Peatland
Abstract
Northern peatlands have accumulated a large amount of organic carbon (C) in their thick peat profile. Climate change and associated variations in soil environments are expected to have significant impacts on the C balance of these ecosystems, but the magnitude is still highly uncertain. Verifying and understanding the influences of changes in environmental factors on C gas fluxes in biogeochemical models are essential for forecasting feedbacks between C gas fluxes and climate change. In this study, we applied a biogeochemical model, DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC), to assess impacts of air temperature (TA) and water table (WT) on C gas fluxes in an Alaskan peatland. DNDC was validated against field measurements of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) and CH4 fluxes under manipulated surface soil temperature and WT conditions in a moderate rich fen. The validation demonstrates that DNDC was able to capture the observed impacts of the manipulations in soil environments on C gas fluxes. To investigate responses of C gas fluxes to changes in TA and soil water condition, we conducted a series of simulations with varying TA and WT. The results demonstrate that (1) uptake rates of CO2 at the site were reduced by either too colder or warmer temperaturesmore »
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- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States). Earth Systems Research Center, Inst. for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
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- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1602269
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- SC0004632
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- Accepted Manuscript
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- Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences
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- Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-8953
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- American Geophysical Union
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Deng, Jia, Li, Changsheng, and Frolking, Steve. Modeling impacts of changes in temperature and water table on C gas fluxes in an Alaskan peatland: Modeling C Gas Fluxes in Peatland. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1002/2014JG002880.
Deng, Jia, Li, Changsheng, & Frolking, Steve. Modeling impacts of changes in temperature and water table on C gas fluxes in an Alaskan peatland: Modeling C Gas Fluxes in Peatland. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JG002880
Deng, Jia, Li, Changsheng, and Frolking, Steve. Wed .
"Modeling impacts of changes in temperature and water table on C gas fluxes in an Alaskan peatland: Modeling C Gas Fluxes in Peatland". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JG002880. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1602269.
@article{osti_1602269,
title = {Modeling impacts of changes in temperature and water table on C gas fluxes in an Alaskan peatland: Modeling C Gas Fluxes in Peatland},
author = {Deng, Jia and Li, Changsheng and Frolking, Steve},
abstractNote = {Northern peatlands have accumulated a large amount of organic carbon (C) in their thick peat profile. Climate change and associated variations in soil environments are expected to have significant impacts on the C balance of these ecosystems, but the magnitude is still highly uncertain. Verifying and understanding the influences of changes in environmental factors on C gas fluxes in biogeochemical models are essential for forecasting feedbacks between C gas fluxes and climate change. In this study, we applied a biogeochemical model, DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC), to assess impacts of air temperature (TA) and water table (WT) on C gas fluxes in an Alaskan peatland. DNDC was validated against field measurements of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) and CH4 fluxes under manipulated surface soil temperature and WT conditions in a moderate rich fen. The validation demonstrates that DNDC was able to capture the observed impacts of the manipulations in soil environments on C gas fluxes. To investigate responses of C gas fluxes to changes in TA and soil water condition, we conducted a series of simulations with varying TA and WT. The results demonstrate that (1) uptake rates of CO2 at the site were reduced by either too colder or warmer temperatures and generally increased with increasing soil moisture; (2) CH4 emissions showed an increasing trend as TA increased or WT rose toward the peat surface; and (3) the site could shift from a net greenhouse gas (GHG) sink into a net GHG source under some warm and/or dry conditions. A sensitivity analysis evaluated the relative importance of TA and WT to C gas fluxes. The results indicate that both TA and WT played important roles in regulating NEE and CH4 emissions and that within the investigated ranges of the variations in TA and WT, changes in WT showed a greater impact than changes in TA on NEE, CH4 fluxes, and net C gas fluxes at the study fen.},
doi = {10.1002/2014JG002880},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences},
number = 7,
volume = 120,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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