Afforestation-Related Fertilisation Quickly Turns Barren Cutaway Peatland Into a Carbon Dioxide Sink.

ABSTRACT: 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, we 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. The site was fertilised with wood ash and 2-year-old Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) saplings were pla

SUBMITTER: Buzacott AJV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12710595 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature