Peatland-VU-NUCOM (PVN 1.0): using dynamic plant functional types to model peatland vegetation, CH4, and CO2 emissions
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Published:2023-11-22
Issue:22
Volume:16
Page:6773-6804
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ISSN:1991-9603
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Container-title:Geoscientific Model Development
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Geosci. Model Dev.
Author:
Lippmann Tanya J. R.ORCID, van der Velde YpeORCID, Heijmans Monique M. P. D.ORCID, Dolman HanORCID, Hendriks Dimmie M. D., van Huissteden Ko
Abstract
Abstract. Despite covering only 3 % of the planet’s land surface, peatlands store 30 % of the planet’s terrestrial carbon. The net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from peatlands depend on many factors but primarily soil temperature, vegetation composition, water level and drainage, and land management. However, many peatland models rely on water levels to estimate CH4 exchange, neglecting to consider the role of CH4 transported to the atmosphere by vegetation. To assess the impact of vegetation on the GHG fluxes of peatlands, we have developed a new model, Peatland-VU-NUCOM (PVN). The PVN model is a site-specific peatland CH4 and CO2 emissions model, able to reproduce vegetation dynamics. To represent dynamic vegetation, we have introduced plant functional types and competition, adapted from the NUCOM-BOG model, into the framework of the Peatland-VU model, a peatland GHG emissions model. The new PVN model includes plant competition, CH4 diffusion, ebullition, root, shoot, litter, exudate production, belowground decomposition, and aboveground moss development under changing water levels and climatic conditions. Here, we present the PVN model structure and explore the model's sensitivity to environmental input data and the introduction of the new vegetation competition schemes. We evaluate the model against observed chamber data collected at two peatland sites in the Netherlands to show that the model is able to reproduce realistic plant biomass fractions and daily CH4 and CO2 fluxes. We find that daily air temperature, water level, harvest frequency and height, and vegetation composition drive CH4 and CO2 emissions. We find that this process-based model is suitable to be used to simulate peatland vegetation dynamics and CH4 and CO2 emissions.
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
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