Title: Assessing environmental attributes and effects of climate change on Sphagnum peatland distributions in North America using single- and multi-species models
Citation: Oke, Tobi A.; Hager, Heather A., 2017, "Assessing environmental attributes and effects of climate change on Sphagnum peatland distributions in North America using single- and multi-species models", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP/WC8NA1, Borealis
Study Site: North America
Purpose: The fate of Northern peatlands under climate change is important because of their contribution to global carbon (C) storage. Peatlands are maintained via greater plant productivity (especially of Sphagnum species) than decomposition, and the processes involved are strongly mediated by climate. Although some studies predict that warming will relax constraints on decomposition, leading to decreased C sequestration, others predict increases in productivity and thus increases in C sequestration.
Abstract: The data archived here are (1) raw climate data used for current and future global climate projections using the Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model (HadGEM2-ES), the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies model (GISS-E2-R), and the Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC-CSM1-1) for representative concentration pathway +2.6; (2) resulting GIS species distribution maps for several Sphagnum species and species combinations using Maxent. The baseline data covers the time period of 1950 to 2000. The future data covers the time periods 2041 to 2070. Data extraction from databases was conducted in January 2016.
Supplemental Information Summary: The original publication (see Related Publication) and this data set should both be cited if these data are used; see the original publication for detailed methods.
Research:
Further Info: Oke, T.A. and Hager, H.A. 2017. Assessing environmental attributes and effects of climate change on Sphagnum peatland distributions in North America using single- and multi-species models. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175978. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175978doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175978
Status: Complete
Keywords:
modeling,
meteorology,
vegetation,
soil carbon,
Geographical coordinates: North: 83.15, South: 41.909 East: -52.619 West: -141.010
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 1950-01-01, End
Date: 2000-01-01
