Figure 1
From: Moderate drop in water table increases peatland vulnerability to post-fire regime shift
Conceptual diagram showing the degradation of the peatland carbon stock.
Far left cycle (A) represents the low frequency peatland fire cycle. The compound disturbance of fire and drainage breaks this cycle, transferring the peatland to the central fire cycle (B). This represents a spiral of decline in peatland carbon stocks. After repeated high frequency fire cycles, peatland stocks are lost to the atmosphere and the landscape is transferred to a stable mineral soil fire cycle (C).
