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Vertical methane fluxes in mesooligotrophic boreal peatland in European Northeast Russia

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This article presents data on vertical methane fluxes in mesooligotrophic peatlands of the middle taiga subzone by the eddy covariance method. We have found a link between the methane emission rate and the changes in groundwater level (GWL) and soil temperature at a depth of 10–20 cm in seasonal dynamics. The total methane emission from April to October was 22.4 g m−2; this value is higher than the values obtained by other authors in circumboreal peatland ecosystems.

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Original Russian Text © O.A. Mikhaylov, M.N. Miglovets, S.V. Zagirova, 2015, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, No. 3, pp. 452–460.

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Mikhaylov, O.A., Miglovets, M.N. & Zagirova, S.V. Vertical methane fluxes in mesooligotrophic boreal peatland in European Northeast Russia. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 8, 368–375 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425515030099

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