Cushion bogs are stronger carbon dioxide net sinks than moss-dominated bogs as revealed by eddy covariance measurements on Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Holl, David; Pancotto, Verónica; Heger, Adrian; Camargo, Sergio Jose; Kutzbach, Lars

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3397-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3397-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3397-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 17

Research article

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12 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 12 Sep 2019

Cushion bogs are stronger carbon dioxide net sinks than moss-dominated bogs as revealed by eddy covariance measurements on Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

David Holl, Verónica Pancotto, Adrian Heger, Sergio Jose Camargo, and Lars Kutzbach

Data sets

AmeriFlux AR-TF1 Rio Moat bog L. Kutzbach https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1543389

AmeriFlux AR-TF2 Rio Pipo bog L. Kutzbach https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1543388

Short summary

We present 2 years of eddy covariance carbon dioxide flux data from two Southern Hemisphere peatlands on Tierra del Fuego. One of the investigated sites is a type of bog exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere, which is dominated by vascular, cushion-forming plants and is particularly understudied. One result of this study is that these cushion bogs apparently are highly productive in comparison to Northern and Southern Hemisphere moss-dominated bogs.