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Mats Rundgren

Mats Rundgren

Universitetslektor

Mats Rundgren

Holocene wet shifts in NW European bogs : evidence for the roles of external forcing and internal feedback from a high-resolution study of peat properties, plant macrofossils and testate amoebae

Författare

  • Mats Rundgren
  • Ulla Kokfelt
  • Kristian Schoning
  • Stefan Wastegård

Summary, in English

Two conspicuous wet shifts in the peat stratigraphy of Store Mosse in southern Sweden, associated with bog-wide changes in vegetation and degree of peat decomposition, were analysed at high resolution. The bog-surface wetness (BSW) proxy data (organic matter bulk density, C/N ratio, plant macrofossils and testate amoebae) highlight the importance of interactions between vegetation composition, microtopography and degree of peat decomposition, and show that the bog system operated consistently during the two wet shifts (dated to c. 2700 and 1000 cal a bp) despite different internal and external conditions. A sensitive bog-system state, associated with a degraded microtopography and well-decomposed surface peat with low hydrological conductivity developed during sustained dry conditions, probably contributed to the large BSW amplitudes registered. Comparable bog systems are expected to operate in the same way, and regionally high sensitivity that developed in response to atmospheric circulation changes may partly explain synchronous registration of wet shifts. The wet shifts in Store Mosse were attributed to solar and volcanic forcing, respectively, and wet shifts of similar magnitude registered in other NW European bogs are likely to also have been externally forced.

Avdelning/ar

  • Geologiska institutionen
  • Kvartärgeologi
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

423-439

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volym

38

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Climate Research
  • Geology

Nyckelord

  • bog-surface wetness
  • external forcing
  • microtopography
  • peat decomposition
  • vegetation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0267-8179