Boreal peatland-forest landscape. (IMAGE)

Marine Biological Laboratory

Boreal peatland-forest landscape.

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A team of 59 international scientists, including at McMaster University and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, pooled their data and discovered boreal peatlands lose more water than do forests in response to drying air. This has important implications not only for projections of water availability in the boreal biome but for global carbon-climate feedbacks.

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Manuel Helbig

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