Title: Delta Burns Bog - AmeriFlux
Citation: Andreas Christen, Sara Knox (2025), AmeriFlux BASE CA-DBB Delta Burns Bog, Ver. 3-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1543378
Study Site: Burns Bog, Delta, British Columbia
Purpose: Many peatlands have been drained and harvested for peat mining, agriculture, and other purposes, which has turned them from carbon (C) sinks into C emitters. Rewetting of disturbed peatlands facilitates their ecological recovery and may help them revert to carbon dioxide (CO2) sinks. However, rewetting may also cause substantial emissions of the more potent greenhouse gas (GHG) methane (CH4). Our knowledge of the exchange of CO2 and CH4 following rewetting during restoration of disturbed peatlands is currently limited. This study quantifies annual fluxes of CO2 and CH4 in a disturbed and rewetted area located in the Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area in Delta, BC, Canada.
Abstract: Greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4) fluxes, energy and water balance, and ecohydrology of a disturbed and rewetted ecosystem undergoing ecological restoration
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Further Info: Lee, S., Christen, A., Black, A.T., Johnson, M.S., Jassal, R.S., Ketler, R., Nesic, Z., & Merkens, M. (2017). Biogeosciences, 14, 2799–2814, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2799-2017
Status: Complete
Keywords:
reclamation/restoration,
carbon dioxide,
effects of disturbance,
methane,
bog,
Geographical coordinates: North: 49.13, South: 49.13 East: -122.98 West: -122.98
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2014-01-01, End
Date: 2024-12-31
