对管理的泥炭地温室气体排放的表层控制
C D Evans1,2, M Peacock3, A J Baird4
1UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor, UK. cev@ceh.ac.uk.
Nature
|April 21, 2021
概括
泥地储存了大量的碳. 干燥泥土的地下水深管理可以显著减少温室气体排放,同时也能减轻气候变化.
科学领域:
- 环境科学
- 气候科学
- 生态学
背景情况:
- 全球泥炭地是重要的碳汇,
- 干旱的泥炭地对人为温室气体排放有很大影响.
- 保护和重新灌是减轻泥炭地排放的关键策略.
研究的目的:
- 研究水表深度对来自泥炭地的温室气体流的影响.
- 通过水表管理量化减少排放的潜力.
主要方法:
- 使用了二氧化碳和甲的静态室测量数据.
- 联合英国和爱尔兰的现场数据与全球的泥炭地生物群数据.
- 分析了有效水表深度对温室气体流量的影响.
主要成果:
- 实际水表深度 (WTDe) 是温室气体流量的主要控制因素,超过其他因素.
- 每减少10厘米的WTDe可以减少每年至少3CO2e/ha的净变暖影响,直到WTDe<30厘米.
- 进一步的水位上升提供了冷却效益,直到WTDe在表面10厘米之内.
结论:
- 通过对干燥的农业泥炭地进行管理,可以大幅减少温室气体排放.
- 在干燥的农业泥炭地减少WTDe一半可以将全球人为排放量减少1%以上.
- 泥地恢复和管理是一个可行的气候变化缓解战略.
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