欧洲和北美地区退化泥炭地修复技术与借鉴

泥炭地是重要的自然湿地类型,具有固碳、水文调节、生物多样性维护等多种生态系统服务功能。受侵蚀、火灾等自然灾害以及排水疏干、过度放牧和基础建设等强烈的人为干扰,全球泥炭地面积不断缩减,成为全球气候变化背景下的碳源。文中从水文修复、植被修复和生态监测与评估等方面,综述了欧洲和北美国家退化泥炭地修复技术研究进展,结合若尔盖湿地修复技术现状进行了研究展望,旨在为我国高原退化湿地的生态修复提供参考。     

Degradation and development of peatlands in Peninsular Malaysia and in the islands of Sumatra and Borneo since 1990

In this study, we investigated the extent of peatland degradation and development in Peninsular Malaysia and in the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, in the western part of insular Southeast Asia, since 1990. Furthermore, carbon emissions caused by these land cover changes were estimated in order to evaluate their contribution to global climate change. High resolution Landsat (30 m spatial resolution) and Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT; 10–20 m) satellite images were used to derive information on land cover in 1990 and 2008. Analysis of land cover changes since 1990 revealed remarkable reduction and degradation of peatswamp forest ecosystems. In less than 20 years, 5·1 Mha of the total 15·5 Mha of peatland had been deforested (11·6 Mha → 6·5 Mha; 75 per cent → 42 per cent) and the great majority of the remaining forests had been selectively logged. Simultaneously, area covered by unmanaged secondary growth ecosystems had doubled to nearly a quarter of all peatlands and industrial plantations had expanded dramatically (0·3 Mha → 2·3 Mha; 2 per cent → 15 per cent). It was conservatively estimated that these changes have caused minimum of 1·5 Gt carbon emissions into the atmosphere since 1990. Currently, peatlands of the study area emit at least 81 Mt of carbon (equivalent to 300 Mt of carbon dioxide) on annual basis due to mere peat decomposition. Thereby, it was concluded that peatland degradation and development in insular Southeast Asia during the past two decades have not only put the existence of Southeast Asian peatswamp forest ecosystems in danger but it has also caused globally significant carbon emissions and created a constant source of carbon dioxide. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

CLASSIFICATION OF PEATLAND DISTURBANCE

Northern peatlands have accumulated a carbon pool of approximately 455 to 547 GtC, and they can make significant contributions to national carbon fluxes. Ireland is an example of a northern latitude country where peatlands are of significance for carbon management. Peatlands in Ireland cover ~20 per cent of the Country and contain nearly two‐thirds of the national soil organic carbon stock. Peatland disturbance was defined, and a framework for the classification of disturbance was developed. The classification process is subjective. To account for this, a survey was conducted among several peatland experts to determine if their opinions differed from the authors'. There was no significant difference between the authors' and the peatland experts' or among each of the peatland expert's opinions. A preliminary classification survey was carried out at 172 points (photos taken at 115). The results for the preliminary study were compared with those of the survey. The expert's average scores for less disturbed and more disturbed areas favourably compared with the results from the disturbance framework. This is a robust, quick and efficient method for assessing peatland disturbance and may be applied to peatlands throughout the globe. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Energy forest water balance on a raised bog

The effect of energy forestry on water balance was quantified for a peat bog in central Sweden. An irrigated plantation containing a mixture of Salve, Betula and Alnus was compared over a 3‐year period with a natural bog as a control area. The groundwater level and the soil water storage decreased in the cultivated area relative to the control area. Runoff during June‐August was generally higher in the cultivated area, mainly in response to irrigation and ditching, which altered runoff dynamics. In September the runoff rate at the cultivated area was lower, owing to the deeper groundwater level and to the larger soil water deficit that occurred prior to the autumn rains. At the cultivated area, about 30% more snow was trapped by the stems and the frost depth was 4 cm shallower. Exapotranspiration increased by 70 mm over the period June‐September compared with the undisturbed area.     

Drainage,Liming and Fertilization of Organic Soils. I. Long-term Effects on Acid/Base Relations

Abstract

Long-term changes of the acid/base relations of organic soils after drainage, fertilization and/or liming at three experimental sites—two ombrogenous and one soligenous—in south central Norway are discussed. These sites were drained, fertilized and/or limed in 1953–1956 and sampled in 1991–1992. Drainage at the ombrogelious sites caused: insignificant shifts of pH, higher bulk densities to 40 cm depth, higher ash percentage, higher contents of N and P to 20 cm depth and reduced concentrations of total Ca, K, Mg, Na, A1 and Fe in soil layers deeper than 20 cm. The soligenous site was not effectively drained; despite this, pH dropped about 0.5 unit in the surface and subsurface soil layers of the control plots, while small changes were measured for most other soil variables. The suggested reason for the pH drop is limited sulphide oxidation in the upper 20 cm drained layer. Base saturation at actual soil pH, when all treatments were included, was estimated with good precision by four regressors: pH, extractable Al, extractable Fe and extractable Ca (R²=0.90–0.95). Similar models explained 97–99”” of the variation in base saturation at soil pH=7.0. The lime effects at the properly drained oligotrophic sites were proportional to applied doses; for pH to 40 cm, base saturation to 60 cm, and Ca concentration to 60 cm depth. At the less well-drained soligenous site, effects were limited to the upper 30 cm layer. Both drainage and liming caused higher cation exchange capacities and proper drainage seems to be a prerequisite for the liming effect. Estimated recovery of calcium to 60 cm depth was 64–79% at the ombrogenous sites and 42–46% at the soligenous site.     

Carbon stocks in Scottish peatlands

Various estimates have suggested that the peatlands of Scotland are a significant deposit of fixed carbon. However, these have been based upon rather imprecise estimates of peat depth. Using previously unused archived data, we have mapped peat depth across the country and then used these values to obtain an improved value of the total carbon stock within peatlands, as well as indicating their spatial distribution. We included peat deposits that occur in combination with other soils in soil map units other than 'blanket' or 'basin' peat. We obtained an area-weighted mean peat depth of 2.0 m, which is slightly shallower than previous estimates. Using values of bulk density and % carbon from the Scottish soils database, the total peatland carbon stock came to 1620 Mt, which represents 56% of the total carbon in all Scottish soils.     

Biomass production and carbon sequestration of dense downy birch stands on cutaway peatlands

The establishment of biomass plantations with short-rotation forestry principles is one of the after-use options for cutaway peatlands. We studied biomass production and carbon sequestration in the above- and below-ground biomass of 25 naturally afforested, 10–30 years old downy birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) stands located in peat cutaway areas in Finland. Self-thinning reduced the stand density from 122,000 trees ha^?1 (stand age of 10 years) to 10,000 trees ha^?1 (25–30 years), while the leafless above-ground biomass increased from 17?Mg ha^?1 up to 79–116?Mg ha^?1. The total leafless biomass (including stumps and roots) varied from 46 to 151?Mg ha^?1. The mean annual increment (MAI) of the above-ground biomass increased up to the stand age of 15 years, after which the MAI was on the average 3.2?Mg ha^?1a^?1. With below-ground biomass, the MAI of the stands older than 15 years was 4.7?Mg ha^?1. The organic matter accumulated in the O-layer on the top of the residual peat increased linearly with the stand age, reaching 29.3?Mg ha^?1 in the oldest stand. The O-layer contributed significantly to the C sink, and the afforestation with downy birch converted most of sites into C sinks.     

Fixing flammable Forest: The scalar politics of peatland governance and restoration in Indonesia

Peatland fires and the impact of transboundary haze are often intertwined with socio‐environmental externalities of neoliberal forest governance and overlapping systems of resource property rights in Indonesia. New peatland governance strategies are emerging to address fires and haze by reorganising peatland management using a more ecologically relevant scale that territorialises peatland according to its hydrological characteristics. Employing the concept of the eco‐scalar fix, this paper interrogates rescaling peatland governance as a strategy to address the socio‐ecological crisis associated with the conversion of peatland into mono‐agricultural land. However, rescaling peatland governance entails the risk of merely displacing socio‐environmental crises to areas considered less ecologically important rather than addressing them. Drawing on a case study of a peatland restoration in Riau, Indonesia, this paper shows how emerging hybrid forms of peatland governance can address the environmental externalities that have unintentionally been created. This hybrid form of peatland governance has pressured actors across multiple types of property to rework the ways that environmental commons are controlled and accessed.     

模拟水位下降与刈割对高寒湿地土壤氨氧化与反硝化微生物的影响

湿地土壤是温室气体重要的源和汇,认识湿地生态系统氮循环过程有助于预测氮循环对未来气候变化的响应与反馈机制。为探讨硝化作用和反硝化作用对土壤水位变化和刈割的响应机制,依托于2013年在青藏高原东部若尔盖泥炭地南部湿地设置的野外实验,通过在样地周围挖掘不同深度的排水沟模拟水位下降,结合刈割处理,研究水位下降和刈割对泥炭地土壤氨氧化古菌(Ammonia-oxidizing archaea,AOA)、氨氧化细菌(Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria,AOB)和反硝化细菌(Denitrifying bacteria)丰度的影响。2014年7月取样分析结果表明:水位下降显著降低土壤含水量,水位下降与刈割均显著降低土壤呼吸;氨氧化及反硝化微生物功能基因丰度在各处理间无显著差异,但刈割及其与水位下降的交互作用显著影响AOA-amo A与AOB-amo A基因丰度比。刈割处理显著增加AOB-amo A基因相对丰度,但对AOA-amo A基因丰度无显著影响,揭示AOB可能在湿地土壤硝化过程中占主导地位。土壤nir S基因丰度显著高于nir K基因,表明nir S基因对水位下降及刈割的响应更为敏感。随着土壤水位的下降,刈割促进了由AOB主导的氨氧化过程,而反硝化微生物丰度的增加削减了氨氧化产物硝酸盐的积累,继而降低了土壤硝酸盐含量。