Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

Loisel, Julie; Gallego‐Sala, Angela; Amesbury, Matthew J.; Magnan, Gabriel; Anshari, Gusti Z.; Beilman, David W.; Benavides, Juan C.; Blewett, Jerome; Camill, Philip; Charman, Dan J.; Chawchai, Sakonvan; Hedgpeth, A.; Kleinen, Thomas; Korhola, Atte; Large, David J.; Mansilla, Claudia A; Müller, Jurek; Bellen, Simon van; West, Jason B.; Yu, Zicheng; Bubier, Jill L.; Garneau, Michelle; Moore, Tim R.; Sannel, A. Britta K.; Page, Susan; Väliranta, Minna; Bechtold, Michel; Brovkin, Victor; Cole, Lydia E.S.; Chanton, Jeffrey P.; Christensen, Torben R.; Davies, Marissa A.; Vleeschouwer, François De; Finkelstein, Sarah A.; Frolking, Steve; Gałka, Mariusz; Gandois, Laure; Girkin, Nicholas T.; Harris, Lorna I.; Heinemeyer, Andreas; Hoyt, Alison M.; Jones, Miriam C.; Joos, Fortunat; Juutinen, Sari; Kaiser, Karl; Lacourse, Terri; Lamentowicz, Mariusz; Larmola, Tuula; Leifeld, Jens; Lohila, Annalea; Milner, Alice M.; Minkkinen, Kari; Moss, Patrick; Naafs, B. David A.; Nichols, J. E.; O’Donnell, J. A.; Payne, Richard J.; Philben, Michael; Piilo, Sanna; Quillet, Anne; Ratnayake, Amila Sandaruwan; Roland, Thomas P.; Sjögersten, Sofie; Sonnentag, Oliver; Swindles, Graeme T.; Swinnen, Ward; Talbot, Julie; Treat, Claire C.; Valach, Amy; Wu, Jiequn

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“…Among natural environments, they have the largest standing biomass and productivity in peatlands, fens, bogs, Arctic and Antarctic tundra, alpine ecosystems, especially above tree line and moist forests (Vanderpoorten and Goffinet, 2009;Tuba et al, 2010). Despite occupying only 3% of the global land area, peatlands contain about 25% (600 GtC) of the global soil C stock, which is equivalent to twice the amount in the world's forests (Yu et al, 2010;Loisel et al, 2021). Bryophytes are also able to inhabit cities, where some species may serve as indirect or even direct (in situ) bioindicators of air pollution, because of their ability to adsorb and accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals (R€ uhling et al, 1970;Stankovi c et al, 2018).…”

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Natural Products from Bryophytes: From Basic Biology to Biotechnological Applications

Horn

Pascal

Lončarević

et al. 2021

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

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Natural products from plants have served mankind in a wide range of applications, such as medicines, perfumes, or flavoring agents. For this reason, synthesis, regulation and function of plant-derived chemicals, as well as the evolution of metabolic diversity, has attracted researchers all around the world. In particular, vascular plants have been subject to such analyses due to prevalent characteristics such as appearance, fragrance, and ecological settings. In contrast, bryophytes, constituting the second largest group of plants in terms of species number, have been mostly overlooked in this regard, potentially due to their seemingly tiny, simple and obscure nature. However, the identification of highly interesting chemicals from bryophytes with potential for biotechnological exploitation is changing this perception. Bryophytes offer a high degree of biochemical complexity, as a consequence of their ecological and genetic diversification, which enable them to prosper in various, often very harsh habitats. The number of bioactive compounds isolated from bryophytes is growing rapidly. The rapidly increasing wealth of bryophyte genetics opens doors to functional and comparative genomics approaches, including disentangling of the biosynthesis of potentially interesting chemicals, mining for novel gene families and tracing the evolutionary history of metabolic pathways. Throughout the last decades, the moss Physcomitrella (Physcomitrium patens) has moved from being a model plant together with Marchantia polymorpha in fundamental biology into an attractive host for the production of biotechnologically relevant compounds such as biopharmaceuticals. In the future, bryophytes like the moss P. patens might also be attractive candidates for the production of novel bryophytederived chemicals of commercial interest. This review provides a comprehensive overview of natural product research in bryophytes from different perspectives together with biotechnological advances throughout the last decade.

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Section: A Ecological Rolesmentioning

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Natural Products from Bryophytes: From Basic Biology to Biotechnological Applications

Horn

Pascal

Lončarević

et al. 2021

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

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“…There is a risk that drought severity can hinder climate change mitigation goals for managed peatlands (Harris et al, 2006). Furthermore, little is known about how restored and intact peatlands respond to the altered temperature and hydrology under future climate change scenarios (Günther et al, 2020;Loisel et al, 2021).…”

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Response of the peatland carbon dioxide sink function to future climate change scenarios and water level management

Salimi

Berggren

Scholz

2021

Global Change Biology

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“…Peatlands clearly play a significant role in global carbon cycling, and the carbon they store is increasingly vulnerable to perturbations from climate and land-use change (Amesbury et al, 2019). Temperature is the most important long-term driver of peat accumulation in northern peatlands, and excessive moisture is deemed a necessary condition for peatland development, maintenance, and carbon preservation (Loisel et al, 2021). Increased global warming, such as the increased temperature and resulting water table drawdown, may imbalance peatland carbon cycles, resulting in a large feedback to the global climate (Packalen et al, 2015;Samson et al, 2018;.…”

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Hydrometeorological dataset of West Siberian boreal peatland: a 10-year record from the Mukhrino field station

Dyukarev

Filippova

Karpov

et al. 2021

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract. Northern peatlands represent one of the largest carbon pools in the biosphere, but the carbon they store is increasingly vulnerable to perturbations from climate and land-use change. Meteorological observations taken directly at peatland areas in Siberia are unique and rare, while peatlands are characterized by a specific local climate. This paper presents a hydrological and meteorological dataset collected at the Mukhrino peatland, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, Russia, over the period of 8 May 2010 to 31 December 2019. Hydrometeorological data were collected from stations located at a small pine–shrub–Sphagnum ridge and Scheuchzeria–Sphagnum hollow at ridge–hollow complexes of ombrotrophic peatland. The monitored meteorological variables include air temperature, air humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, incoming and reflected photosynthetically active radiation, net radiation, soil heat flux, precipitation (rain), and snow depth. A gap-filling procedure based on the Gaussian process regression model with an exponential kernel was developed to obtain continuous time series. For the record from 2010 to 2019, the average mean annual air temperature at the site was −1.0 ∘C, with the mean monthly temperature of the warmest month (July) recorded as 17.4 ∘C and for the coldest month (January) −21.5 ∘C. The average net radiation was about 35.0 W m−2, and the soil heat flux was 2.4 and 1.2 W m−2 for the hollow and the ridge sites, respectively. The presented data are freely available through Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323024, Dyukarev et al., 2020), last access: 15 December 2020) and can be used in coordination with other hydrological and meteorological datasets to examine the spatiotemporal effects of meteorological conditions on local hydrological responses across cold regions.

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Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

Cited by 243 publications

References 99 publications

Natural Products from Bryophytes: From Basic Biology to Biotechnological Applications

Natural Products from Bryophytes: From Basic Biology to Biotechnological Applications

Response of the peatland carbon dioxide sink function to future climate change scenarios and water level management

Hydrometeorological dataset of West Siberian boreal peatland: a 10-year record from the Mukhrino field station

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