Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4315-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4315-2016
Research article
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01 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 01 Aug 2016

Decadal and long-term boreal soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration rates across a variety of ecosystems

Kristen L. Manies, Jennifer W. Harden, Christopher C. Fuller, and Merritt R. Turetsky

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (21 Apr 2016) by Sönke Zaehle
AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (27 May 2016)  Author's response
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 May 2016) by Sönke Zaehle
RR by F. Stuart Chapin (04 Jul 2016)
RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (07 Jul 2016)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Jul 2016) by Sönke Zaehle
AR by Kristen Manies on behalf of the Authors (15 Jul 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
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Boreal soils are important to the global C cycle. We need to understand what controls how C accumulates and is lost from this soil. To help we examined C & N accumulation rates for five boreal ecosystems. Most ecosystems were similar. But the rich fen had higher long-term C & N accumulation rates, likely due to differences in nutrient cycling & because it burns less. Therefore, shifts among ecosystems will not change regional C & N dynamics much, unless there is a shift to or from a rich fen.
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