Roots grow more and deeper in bogs under a changing climate

Sören Eliot Weber, West Virginia University, discusses his article: Fine-root responses to warming and elevated CO2 vary among plant functional types Roots link plants to soil, shaping the responses of carbon, nutrient, and water cycles to climate change in peatlands. Peatlands in northern Minnesota (USA) have shallow water tables and canopies of black spruce and…

Exploring the extremes of cation availability

Jonathan Ritson, who worked at the University of Manchester during this research, discusses his article: Cation responses to global changes alter ecological processes in ombrotrophic systems In bogs, we often focus on the hydrology of the system; there has also been a large body of work trying to understand the global implications of acid deposition…