Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 36002465.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-32711-4 and PMC identifier 9402595.
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Abstract
High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba data from 103 high-latitude peat archives. We show that 54% of the peatlands have been drying and 32% have been wetting over this period, illustrating the complex ecohydrological dynamics of high latitude peatlands and their highly uncertain responses to a warming climate.
Medical subject headings
- Amoeba
- Permafrost