Project Details
Projekt
Carbon sequestration and buffer function of displacement peat in wetscapes 2.0 (S02)
Subject Area
Soil Sciences
Term
since 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 531801029
We will quantify four key ecosystem functions of peatlands, i.e. the storage of C, nutrients, water and information, all of which are related to services to humans. We will develop a conceptual model of fen peat formation, describing peat growth after rewetting, explicitly considering that rewetted peatlands are novel ecosystems. Both the degraded and the newly developed peat horizons together form a novel type of peat. In S2 we characterize and quantify multiple processes that control the storage functions of this peat. Resulting transport, exchange, and biogeochemical processes as well as feedback-loops impacting the development of displacement peat will be characterized.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Subproject of
TRR 410:
WETSCAPES2.0: sinks, links and legacies of novel ecosystems in rewetted fen landscapes
Applicant Institution
Universität Greifswald
