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Impact of climate on export of DOC from a peatland catchment.

Impact of climate on export of DOC from a peatland catchment. Elizabeth Ryder, Elvira de Eyto , Mary Dillane , Russell Poole, Suzanne Linnane and Eleanor Jennings. 2 nd of March 2012 Annual Meeting of Freshwater Biologists Trinity College Dublin. . Introduction. Sources of carbon

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Impact of climate on export of DOC from a peatland catchment.

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  1. Impact of climate on export of DOC from a peatland catchment. Elizabeth Ryder, Elvira de Eyto, Mary Dillane, Russell Poole, Suzanne Linnane and Eleanor Jennings. 2nd of March 2012 Annual Meeting of Freshwater Biologists Trinity College Dublin.

  2. Introduction • Sources of carbon • Site Description • Drivers of carbon • Examples.

  3. Sources of carbon Two main sources of carbon, specifically dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in aquatic ecosystems • Terrestrial (Allochthonous carbon) • Primary production (Autochthonous carbon).

  4. Sources of carbon Worldwide peatlands cover 500 million hectare of land. Most extensive in Europe and North America. Peatlands or bogs are one of the largest stores of carbon in the world. Organic carbon content (%) in topsoils (0–30cm) in Europe. Peatlands are those with organic content of greater than 25% (Montanarella et al. (2006).

  5. Glenamong sub-catchment GG Rain Gauge GG Rain Gauge ARMS (Temperature, Conductivity, pH, DO, CDOM fluorometer, nephelometer) and water level recorder GG Rain Gauge GG Rain Gauge GG Rain Gauge • Catchment Area 1821 ha. • Forested area 408 ha = 22% • Annual rainfall = 2000mm

  6. CDOM fluorometer: Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter is the light absorbing component of dissolved organic matter. After initial corrections and calibrations CDOM fluorescence (mV) temperature corrected. CDOM fluorescence (mV) was converted into QSU CDOM fluorescence can be used as a proxy for dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Water Colour is also a proxy for DOC.

  7. Mean daily DOC export from the GG catchment Annual DOC export 9.87 tC km2

  8. DOC Drivers • Temperature • Soil moisture (Impact on decomposition processes) • Precipitation (variation in timing and intensity) Glenamong DOC export 2010-2011

  9. Temperature • Soil organic matter decomposition in response to temperature • Temperature effect on decomposition rates vary due to different soil moisture content leading to differences in aerobic and anaerobic decomposition

  10. Temperature How will global warming affect these carbon pools? Air temperature trends globally, in Ireland and in Burrishoole Mean annual air temperature in Burrishoole increased significantly by 1.48 oC Fealy et al. RESCALE project final report 2010

  11. Soil Moisture • Production of DOC have been shown to be correlated with low soil moisture over time. • Decomposition rates of peatlands are very sensitive to changes in soil moisture, particularly in soils that are generally water logged. • Decrease in water table, allowing oxygen into anoxic layers and lead to increase in aerobic decomposition of peat

  12. Precipitation

  13. Low soil moisture + high precipitation

  14. Drought/Precipitation event

  15. Drought/Precipitation event

  16. Precipitation After the autumn DOC flux, DOC concentrations remain comparatively low irrelevant to storm events

  17. Seasonality of DOC exportmay result in an over estimation of DOC fluxes during winter/spring load estimates.

  18. Emission-Excitation Matrix Scans (EEM’s) for Glenamong River. The EEM scan enables a detailed characterisation of the organic matter and can discriminate between humic and fulvic-like acid. Glenamong Janurary2010 Glenamong June 2010 Full excitation emission plots Black square = where field instrument measures 370 – 440nm Glenamong August 2010 Glenamong September 2010 CDOM Fluorometers, under estimate the carbon exported from the catchment.

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