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Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia
Peatlands perform many important ecosystem functions at both the local and global scale, including hydrologic and climatic regulation. Although peatlands often act as climatic microrefugia, they have rarely been the subject of long-term microclimatic studies. In this study, we aimed to compare the l...
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author | Słowińska, Sandra Słowiński, Michał Marcisz, Katarzyna Lamentowicz, Mariusz |
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description | Peatlands perform many important ecosystem functions at both the local and global scale, including hydrologic and climatic regulation. Although peatlands often act as climatic microrefugia, they have rarely been the subject of long-term microclimatic studies. In this study, we aimed to compare the local climatic conditions of a mid-forest mire to that of an open area and examine the differences in microclimates within the mire based on plant community diversity, shading, and water table depths. The peatland studied in this work was significantly cooler than the reference site, mainly due to a higher decline in nighttime air temperatures. However, the daily maximum air temperature near the ground was often higher. We also noticed that microclimates significantly differed within the studied peatland. Wet and shaded microsites were cooler than the sites having a lower water level and receiving higher amounts of solar radiation. The results of the study suggest that peatlands have locally cooler climates, and thus can serve as climate change refugia. These findings can help us interpret reconstructed data from the peat archive, and, when combined with experiments, identify tipping points for peatland ecosystems. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00484-022-02240-2. |
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spelling | pubmed-89481142022-04-07 Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia Słowińska, Sandra Słowiński, Michał Marcisz, Katarzyna Lamentowicz, Mariusz Int J Biometeorol Original Paper Peatlands perform many important ecosystem functions at both the local and global scale, including hydrologic and climatic regulation. Although peatlands often act as climatic microrefugia, they have rarely been the subject of long-term microclimatic studies. In this study, we aimed to compare the local climatic conditions of a mid-forest mire to that of an open area and examine the differences in microclimates within the mire based on plant community diversity, shading, and water table depths. The peatland studied in this work was significantly cooler than the reference site, mainly due to a higher decline in nighttime air temperatures. However, the daily maximum air temperature near the ground was often higher. We also noticed that microclimates significantly differed within the studied peatland. Wet and shaded microsites were cooler than the sites having a lower water level and receiving higher amounts of solar radiation. The results of the study suggest that peatlands have locally cooler climates, and thus can serve as climate change refugia. These findings can help us interpret reconstructed data from the peat archive, and, when combined with experiments, identify tipping points for peatland ecosystems. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00484-022-02240-2. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-02-03 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8948114/ /pubmed/35113230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-022-02240-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Słowińska, Sandra Słowiński, Michał Marcisz, Katarzyna Lamentowicz, Mariusz Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia |
title | Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia |
title_full | Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia |
title_fullStr | Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia |
title_full_unstemmed | Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia |
title_short | Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia |
title_sort | long-term microclimate study of a peatland in central europe to understand microrefugia |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8948114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35113230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-022-02240-2 |
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