Toward restoring the net carbon sink function of degraded peatlands: Short‐term response in CO2 exchange to ecosystem‐scale restoration

Northern peatlands represent a globally important stock of soil carbon and have acted as a net sink of atmospheric CO 2 throughout the Holocene. Disturbance for horticultural peat extraction disrupts ecosystem function and converts these ecosystems to large, persistent sources of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). This study investigates the effect of ecosystem‐scale restoration on growing season CO 2 exchange in a peatland by comparing a restored site to …