Drivers and Annual Totals of Methane Emissions From Dutch Peatlands
Rewetting peatlands is required to limit carbon dioxide (CO ) emissions, however, raising the groundwater level (GWL) will strongly increase the chance of methane (CH ) emissions which has a higher radiative forcing than CO . Data sets of CH from different rewetting strategies and natural systems ar...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Global change biology 2024-12, Vol.30 (12), p.e17590 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Rewetting peatlands is required to limit carbon dioxide (CO
) emissions, however, raising the groundwater level (GWL) will strongly increase the chance of methane (CH
) emissions which has a higher radiative forcing than CO
. Data sets of CH
from different rewetting strategies and natural systems are scarce, and quantification and an understanding of the main drivers of CH
emissions are needed to make effective peatland rewetting decisions. We present a large data set of CH
fluxes (FCH
) measured across 16 sites with eddy covariance on Dutch peatlands. Sites were classified into six land uses, which also determined their vegetation and GWL range. We investigated the principal drivers of emissions and gapfilled the data using machine learning (ML) to derive annual totals. In addition, Shapley values were used to understand the importance of drivers to ML model predictions. The data showed the typical controls of FCH
where temperature and the GWL were the dominant factors, however, some relationships were dependent on land use and the vegetation present. There was a clear average increase in FCH
with increasing GWLs, with the highest emissions occurring at GWLs near the surface. Soil temperature was the single most important predictor for ML gapfilling but the Shapley values revealed the multi-driver dependency of FCH
. Mean annual FCH
totals across all land uses ranged from 90
11 to 632
65 kg CH
ha
year
and were on average highest for semi-natural land uses, followed by paludiculture, lake, wet grassland and pasture with water infiltration system. The mean annual flux was strongly correlated with the mean annual GWL (R
= 0.80). The greenhouse gas balance of our sites still needs to be estimated to determine the net climate impact, however, our results indicate that considerable rates of CO
uptake and long-term storage are required to fully offset the emissions of CH
from land uses with high GWLs. |
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ISSN: | 1354-1013 1365-2486 |
DOI: | 10.1111/gcb.17590 |