%0 Research Notes
%T Changes in the carbon balance of forested mires in Karelia due to drainage
%A Sakovets, Vladimir
%A Germanova, Natalia I.
%D 1992
%J Suo - Mires and peat
%V 43
%N 4-5
%U http://suo.fi/article/9715
%X The carbon balance of undrained and drained parts of a herb-rich pine fen mire ecosystem were calculated. The drainage had been carried out twenty years earlier. Drainage resulted in an increase of 1.23 t C ha-1 a-1 within the ecosystem. The increase was due to increased stand production, which exceeded a loss of carbon from the peat (-0.32 t ha-1 a-1).

Keywords: Peat, peatland forestry, phytomass, Russia