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Title: Electron shuttling capacity and greenhouse gas production of soils for three high-elevation wetlands at Niwot Ridge, 2024.
High-elevation wetlands are important indicators of how mountain ecosystems may respond to global climate change. These wetlands also act as locations of disproportionate biogeochemical processing on the landscape, but they remain relatively understudied compared to lowland wetlands. This study aimed to characterize redox-active organic matter (RAOM) reduction, a known key control on carbon cycling in high-latitude peatland ecosystems, to better understand biogeochemical cycling in high elevation wetlands and carbon greenhouse gas production at Niwot Ridge LTER. Soils were collected from three different types of wetlands, a subalpine wetland, a periglacial solifluction lobe, and an alpine wet meadow. Samples were incubated at a common temperature in the laboratory to measure RAOM reduction, carbon dioxide production, and methane production over 63-d. This dataset reports the electron shuttling values, a measure of RAOM reduction, and the greenhouse gas production over the incubation period.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2224439
PAR ID:
10632817
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Publisher / Repository:
Environmental Data Initiative
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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