Leaf traits interact with management and water table to modulate ecosystem properties in fen peatlands
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 12-012-1568
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/s11104-019-04126-6
- Title of journal
- Plant and Soil
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- First page
- 331
- Volume
- 441
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- ISSN
- 0032-079X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The paper investigated the role of plant functional traits in maintaining the ecological processes that contribute to peatland soils being a major global carbon stock. This is significant because the study highlighted how warming-induced decline in water table height can catalyse changes in soil conditions that normally favour peat bog communities to communities dominated by vascular plants. This change in plant functional groups, in turn leads to fundamental shifts in plant functional traits, which directly impact litter chemistry, rates of decomposition and finally compromises the capacity of peatlands to sequester carbon.
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- Non-English
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