Ecosystem scale evapotranspiration and CO2 exchange in burned and unburned peatlands: Implications for the ecohydrological resilience of carbon stocks to wildfire

Abstract Boreal peatlands represent a significant global store of soil carbon, which are subject to increasing natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Wildfire is the single largest disturbance to boreal forest and wetlands annually. Critical to the long‐term carbon storage function in peatlands is the (re‐)establishment of a near‐surface water table following wildfire. This has been recently shown to in part be facilitated by post‐fire …