Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world’s largest peatland helps addressing the world’s largest problems

Kirpotin, Sergey N.; Antoshkina, Olga A.; Berezin, A.E.; Elshehawi, Samer; Feurdean, Angelica; Лапшина, Е. Д.; Pokrovsky, Oleg S.; Peregon, Anna; Semenova, Natalia; Tanneberger, Franziska; Volkov, Igor; Volkova, Irina I.; Joosten, Hans

doi:10.1007/s13280-021-01520-2

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“…These changes are associated not only with a trend of warming climate (Kirpotin et al 2009;Seneviratne et al 2012;Golitsyn and Vasiliev 2019), but also with an increased climate instability, namely in the frequency of catastrophic climate-induced events such as droughts, fires, floods, rain-on-snow events and heat waves (Bokhorst et al 2009;Sokolov et al 2016). Climate changes interact with developing land-use practices that lead to a range of consequences ranging from abandonment of agricultural land to intensification of resource extraction such as in the gas and oil industries (Kirpotin et al 2021).…”

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“…Although mires are considered as ecosystems with a high degree of self-organization and autonomy (Ivanov 1975;Joosten 1993), shallow and small sized mountain mires are expected to have less resilience to environmental changes than the huge mires of the lowland plains, such as the Great Vasyugan Mire (Kirpotin et al 2021). Within the mountains, the mire habitats are an additional and specific refuge for often rare and threatened hygrophilous species (Volkova et al 2009) and conserve an important component of mountain biodiversity.…”

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South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity

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Volkov

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Changes in climate, land-use and pollution are having disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity of arctic and mountain ecosystems. While these impacts are well-documented for many areas of the Arctic and alpine regions, some isolated and inaccessible mountain areas are poorly studied. Furthermore, even in well-studied regions, assessments of biodiversity and species responses to environmental change are biased towards vascular plants and cryptogams, particularly bryophytes are far less represented. This paper aims to document the environments of the remote and inaccessible Altai-Sayan mountain mires and particularly their bryofloras where threatened species exist and species new to the regional flora are still being found. As these mountain mires are relatively inaccessible, changes in drivers of change and their ecosystem and biodiversity impacts have not been monitored. However, the remoteness of the mires has so far protected them and their species. In this study, we describe the mires, their bryophyte species and the expected impacts of environmental stressors to bring attention to the urgency of documenting change and conserving these pristine ecosystems.Keywords Biodiversity Á Bryophytes Á Climate change Á Mountain mires Á Siberia In memory of Emelian Muldiyarov, Siberian bryologist, mire scientist, teacher and friend.

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South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity

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“…access routes Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Changes in grazing and hunting areas Lavrillier and Gobychev ( 2021 ) Interactions with the environment Higher level of formal education in cities Greater awareness of global environmental change by city dwellers Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Greater contact with nature in nomads villages and small settlements More accurate perceptions of environmental change by small settlement dwellers Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Landscapes Topography Mountains Loss of glacier mass Increase in glacier forefields Volkov et al ( 2021 ) Callaghan et al ( 2021 ) Plains Changes in forests and wetlands Volkov et al ( 2021 ) Kharuk et al ( 2021 ) Kirpotin et al ( 2021a , b ) Biogeographical zones Tundra Invasion of trees and shrubs (“greening”) Loss of permafrost Kirpotin et al 2021a Anisimov and Zimov ( 2021 ) Taiga Increase in forest fires Kharuk et al ( 2021 ) Kharuk et al ( 2021 ) Increase in legal and illegal logging Kharuk et al, ( 2021 ) Increase in insect pests Kirpotin et al ( 2021a ) Steppes Increasing aridity Kirpotin et al ( ...…”

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Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking

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Shaduyko

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A recent multidisciplinary compilation of studies on changes in the Siberian environment details how climate is changing faster than most places on Earth with exceptional warming in the north and increased aridity in the south. Impacts of these changes are rapid permafrost thaw and melt of glaciers, increased flooding, extreme weather events leading to sudden changes in biodiversity, increased forest fires, more insect pest outbreaks, and increased emissions of CO 2 and methane. These trends interact with sociological changes leading to land-use change, globalisation of diets, impaired health of Arctic Peoples, and challenges for transport. Local mitigation and adaptation measures are likely to be limited by a range of public perceptions of climate change that vary according to personal background. However, Siberia has the possibility through land surface feedbacks to amplify or suppress climate change impacts at potentially global levels. Based on the diverse studies presented in this Ambio Special Issue, we suggest ways forward for more sustainable environmental research and management. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01626-7.

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“…Biodiversity, global climate change, and environmental dynamics require a multiproxy research approach to discover the complex linkages between the ecosystem elements [36]. Thus, the actual scientific challenge is to organize a platform to facilitate access for diverse researchers in studying the objective.…”

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“…Because West Siberian peatlands constitute most of all peatlands on the Eurasian continent [8], the establishment of long-term records of GHG and water vapor exchange between peatlands and the atmosphere in this area under specific hydroclimatological and geological settings are essential. Intact peatlands act as significant sinks and stores of carbon and water, play a vital role as climate-regulators on a global and regional scale, and are safe-havens for unique biodiversity [22,36].…”

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The Multiscale Monitoring of Peatland Ecosystem Carbon Cycling in the Middle Taiga Zone of Western Siberia: The Mukhrino Bog Case Study

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The peatlands of the West Siberian Lowlands, comprising the largest pristine peatland area of the world, have not previously been covered by continuous measurement and monitoring programs. The response of peatlands to climate change occurs over several decades. This paper summarizes the results of peatland carbon balance studies collected over ten years at the Mukhrino field station (Mukhrino FS, MFS) operating in the Middle Taiga Zone of Western Siberia. A multiscale approach was applied for the investigations of peatland carbon cycling. Carbon dioxide fluxes at the local scale studied using the chamber method showed net accumulation with rates from 110, to 57.8 gC m−2 at the Sphagnum hollow site. Net CO2 fluxes at the pine-dwarf shrubs-Sphagnum ridge varied from negative (−32.1 gC m−2 in 2019) to positive (13.4 gC m−2 in 2017). The cumulative May-August net ecosystem exchange (NEE) from eddy-covariance (EC) measurements at the ecosystem scale was −202 gC m−2 in 2015, due to the impact of photosynthesis of pine trees which was not registered by the chamber method. The net annual accumulation of carbon in the live part of mosses was estimated at 24–190 gC m−2 depending on the Sphagnum moss species. Long-term carbon accumulation rates obtained by radiocarbon analysis ranged from 28.5 to 57.2 gC m−2 yr−1, with local extremes of up to 176.2 gC m−2 yr−1. The obtained estimates of various carbon fluxes using EC and chamber methods, the accounting for Sphagnum growth and decomposition, and long-term peat accumulation provided information about the functioning of the peatland ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales. Multiscale carbon flux monitoring reveals useful new information for forecasting the response of northern peatland carbon cycles to climatic changes.

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Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world’s largest peatland helps addressing the world’s largest problems

Cited by 28 publications

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South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity

South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity

Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking

The Multiscale Monitoring of Peatland Ecosystem Carbon Cycling in the Middle Taiga Zone of Western Siberia: The Mukhrino Bog Case Study

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