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Record W4408381876 · doi:10.5194/bg-22-1355-2025

Simulating ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes and their associated influencing factors for a restored peatland

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Hongxing He, Ian B. Strachan, Nigel T. Roulet

Bibliographic record

VenueBiogeosciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Canadian institutionsQueen's UniversityMcGill University
FundersCanadian Sphagnum Peat Moss AssociationNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMcGill University
KeywordsPeatCarbon dioxideEcosystemEnvironmental scienceEcologyAtmospheric sciencesGeologyBiology

Abstract

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Abstract. Restoration of drained and extracted peatlands can potentially return them to carbon dioxide (CO2) sinks, thus acting as significant climate change mitigation. However, whether the restored sites will remain sinks or switch to sources with a changing climate is unknown. Therefore, we adapted the CoupModel to simulate ecosystem CO2 fluxes and the associated influencing factors of a restored bog. The study site was a peatland in eastern Canada that was extracted for 8 years and left for 20 years before restoration. The model outputs were first evaluated against 3 years (representing 14–16 years post-restoration) of eddy covariance measurements of net ecosystem exchange (NEE), surface energy fluxes, soil temperature profiles, and water table depth data. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to evaluate the response of the simulated CO2 fluxes to the thickness of the newly grown mosses. The validated model was then used to assess the sensitivity to changes in climate forcing. The CoupModel reproduced the measured surface energy fluxes and showed high agreement with the observed soil temperature, water table depth, and NEE data. The simulated NEE varied slightly when changing the thickness of newly grown mosses and acrotelm from 0.2 to 0.4 m but showed significantly less uptake for a 1 m thickness. The simulated NEE was -95±19gCm-2yr-1 over the 3 evaluation years and -101±64gCm-2yr-1, ranging from −219 to +54gCm-2yr-1, with extended 28-year climate data. After 14 years of restoration, the peatland has a mean CO2 uptake rate similar to pristine sites but with a much larger interannual variability, and in dry years, the restored peatland can switch back to a temporary CO2 source. The model predicts a moderate reduction in CO2 uptake but still a reasonable sink under future climate change conditions if the peatland is ecologically and hydrologically restored. The ability of the CoupModel to simulate the CO2 dynamics and its thermo-hydro-drivers for restored peatlands has important implications for emission accounting and climate-smart management of drained peatlands.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.398

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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