##  [Recent Climate Change has Driven Divergent Hydrological Shifts in High-latitude Peatlands](/resource/recent-climate-change-has-driven-divergent-hydrological-shifts-high-latitude-peatlands) 

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Resource Type

[Peer reviewed article](/taxonomy/term/37)

 

 

Author(s)

Hui Zhang

Minna Väliranta

Graeme Swindles

Marco Aquino-López

Donal Mullan

Ning Tan

Matthew Amesbury

Kirill Babeshko

Kunshan Bao

Anatoly Bobrov

Viktor Chernyshov

Marissa Davies

Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu

Angelica Feurdean

Sarah Finkelstein

Michelle Garneau

Zhengtang Guo

Miriam Jones

Martin Kay

Eric Klein

Mariusz Lamentowicz

Gabriel Magnan

Katarzyna Marcisz

Natalia Mazei

Yuri Mazei

Richard Payne

Nicolas Pelletier

Sanna Piilo

Steve Pratte

Thomas Roland

Damir Saldaev

William Shotyk

Thomas Sim

Thomas Sloan

Michał Słowiński

Julie Talbot

Liam Taylor

Andrey Tsyganov

Sebastian Wetterich

Wei Xing

Yan Zhao

 

 

Original Authors

Hui Zhang

Minna Väliranta

Graeme Swindles

Marco Aquino-López

Donal Mullan

Ning Tan

Matthew Amesbury

Kirill Babeshko

Kunshan Bao

Anatoly Bobrov

Viktor Chernyshov

Marissa Davies

Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu

Angelica Feurdean

Sarah Finkelstein

Michelle Garneau

Zhengtang Guo

Miriam Jones

Martin Kay

Eric Klein

Mariusz Lamentowicz

Gabriel Magnan

Katarzyna Marcisz

Natalia Mazei

Yuri Mazei

Richard Payne

Nicolas Pelletier

Sanna Piilo

Steve Pratte

Thomas Roland

Damir Saldaev

William Shotyk

Thomas Sim

Thomas Sloan

Michał Słowiński

Julie Talbot

Liam Taylor

Andrey Tsyganov

Sebastian Wetterich

Wei Xing

Yan Zhao

 

 

Contacts

[Hui Zhang](/contact/hui-zhang)

 

 

Resource Date:

August

2022

 

Page Length

7

 

 

High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba data from 103 high-latitude peat archives. We show that 54% of the peatlands have been drying and 32% have been wetting over this period, illustrating the complex ecohydrological dynamics of high latitude peatlands and their highly uncertain responses to a warming climate.