Carbon balance of a boreal patterned peatland

Summary Measurements of the spatial variability of methane (CH 4 ) emissions, net CO 2 ecosystem exchange (NEE), and dissolved carbon (CH 4 , CO 2 , and DOC) were made in a boreal patterned peatland in northern Sweden in the summers (May to September) of 1992 and 1993. Carbon balance terms were measured and the carbon balance inferred at different peatland surface topography features (e.g. ridges, lawns, and pools) and at different positions …