Buzacott et al. (2025): Afforestation-Related Fertilisation Quickly Turns Barren Cutaway Peatland Into a Carbon Dioxide Sink
Alexander J. V. Buzacott, Kari Laasasenaho, Risto Lauhanen, Kari Minkkinen, Paavo Ojanen, Gopal Adhikari, Liisa Jokelainen, Lassi Päkkilä, Hannu Marttila, Annalea Lohila, IN: Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70644
Energy peat extraction has declined rapidly in Europe in recent years, leaving thousands of hectares of land requiring after-use management and planning. A popular after-use option, afforestation, is understudied and there is a limited understanding of its overall effect on greenhouse gas (GHG) and energy exchange. In this study, the authors present a multi-year record of eddy covariance fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO₂), energy fluxes and surface albedo, chamber measurements of methane (CH₄) and N₂O, and estimates of lateral carbon (C) losses from dissolved organic carbon (DOC) measurements from a cutaway peatland in Finland during the first 3 years of afforestation.