Volume and mass budgets of blanket peat in the north of Scotland
Anderson A. R., Pyatt D. G., Sayers J. M., Blackhall S. R., Robinson H. D. Volume and mass budgets of blanket peat in the north of Scotland.
Tiivistelmä
The ground surface was 0.5 m lower under a 22-year-old lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) plantation than in the adjacent unplanted ride. The peat was much drier beneath the trees than in the ride. The depth of peat under the trees, adjusted so that each layer had the same dry bulk density as the originally equivalent depths in the ride, effectively reversing shrinkage due to drying, was 2 cm greater than our best estimate of its original depth and the depth in the ride was 8 cm greater than in 1966. The original depths, surveyed in 1966 had too large an uncertainty (± 15 cm) for the changes to be significant. Keywords: Carbon stores, peatland forestry, Pinus contorta
Avainsanat
peatland forestry;
Carbon stores;
Pinus contorta
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