Catchment characteristics control boreal mire nutrient regime and vegetation patterns over ~5000 years of landscape development

Abstract

Vegetation holds the key to many properties that make natural mires unique, such as surface microtopography, high biodiversity values, effective carbon sequestration and regulation of water and nutrient fluxes across the landscape. Despite this, landscape controls behind mire vegetation patterns have previously been poorly described at large spatial scales, which limits the understanding of basic drivers underpinning mire ecosystem services. We studied catchment controls on mire nutrient regimes and vegetation patterns using a geographically constrained natural mire chronosequence along the isostatically rising coastline in Northern Sweden. By comparing mires of different ages, we can partition vegetation patterns caused by long-term mire succession (

Keywords

Catchment support; Chronosequence; NDVI; Landscape ecology; Holocene

Published in

Science of the Total Environment
2023, volume: 895, article number: 165132

SLU Authors

• Ehnvall, Betty

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Ågren, Anneli

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Nilsson, Mats

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Ratcliffe, Joshua

  • Unit for Field-based Forest Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Noumonvi, Koffi Dodji

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Peichl, Matthias

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Lidberg, William

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Öquist, Mats

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Earth Observation
Physical Geography
Ecology

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165132

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