Boreal ecology articles within Nature Geoscience

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• Article | 12 December 2022

  Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

  Carbon sequestration by Siberian forests has been low over the past decade due to disturbances that have decreased live biomass and increased dead wood, according to passive microwave observations.

  • Lei Fan
  • , Jean-Pierre Wigneron
  •  & Rasmus Fensholt

• Matters Arising | 28 October 2019

  Validity of managing peatlands with fire

  • A. J. Baird
  • , C. D. Evans
  •  & D. M. Young

• Article | 03 December 2018

  Experimental evidence for sustained carbon sequestration in fire-managed, peat moorlands

  Prescribed burning has far less impacts on peat growth and carbon sequestration than previously thought, according to a long-term experiment in fire-managed peat moorlands in England. Managed burning may be a viable strategy to make peatlands more resilient to devastating wildfire.

  • R. H. Marrs
  • , E.-L. Marsland
  •  & R. C. Chiverrell

• Letter | 25 May 2015

  Persistence of dissolved organic matter in lakes related to its molecular characteristics

  Organic matter’s molecular structure has been thought to influence its decomposition. Analyses of dissolved organic carbon in Swedish lakes found that aliphatic and N-containing compounds persisted, while oxidized aromatic compounds were lost.

  • Anne M. Kellerman
  • , Dolly N. Kothawala
  •  & Lars J. Tranvik

• News & Views | 02 February 2015

  Fire evolution split by continent

  Boreal forest fires tend to be more intense and lethal in North America than Eurasia. Differences in tree species composition explain these differences in fire regime, and lead to contrasting feedbacks to climate.

  • Mike Flannigan

• Article | 02 February 2015

  Influence of tree species on continental differences in boreal fires and climate feedbacks

  Boreal forest wildfires in North America are more intense and destructive than in Eurasia. Differences in species-level adaptations to fire are primary drivers of these differences in fire regimes.

  • Brendan M. Rogers
  • , Amber J. Soja
  •  & James T. Randerson

• Letter | 05 May 2013

  Boreal carbon loss due to poleward shift in low-carbon ecosystems

  Climate change can be thought of in terms of geographical shifts in climate properties. Tracking the geographical movement of analogous climate conditions between historical and future climate model simulations, and calculating the impact of such shifts on vegetation carbon storage, suggests that boreal forests will lose carbon as low-carbon ecosystems shift in.

  • Charles D. Koven

• Research Highlights | 30 November 2011

  Ice and algae

  • Anna Armstrong

• Letter | 05 December 2010

  Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands

  Climate change has increased the area affected by forest fires in boreal North America. An analysis of the depth of burning in forests and peatlands in Alaska indicates that ground-layer combustion has accelerated regional carbon losses.

  • Merritt R. Turetsky
  • , Evan S. Kane
  •  & Eric S. Kasischke

• Letter | 07 March 2010

  Insolation and CO₂ contribution to the interglacial climate before and after the Mid-Brunhes Event

  The five interglacial periods that occurred after the Mid-Brunhes Event 430,000 years ago were longer and warmer than the preceding interglacials. Climate modelling indicates that a change in the seasonality of insolation following the event, in conjunction with higher greenhouse-gas concentrations, could have caused the relative warmth.

  • Q. Z. Yin
  •  & A. Berger