Long-term microclimate study of a peatland in Central Europe to understand microrefugia.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Slowinska S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8948114 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature