Paper on the Gnarrenburger Moor project

The Gnarrenburger Moor project is a collaboration of the institutes micromet group and the peatland team. To install a subsurface irrigation system at one of the two sites, grassland renewal was conducted. Very weak regrowth of the grass, fertilisation, low pH-values and, finally, rising peat water levels due to subsurface irrigation cause record-breaking levels of nitrous oxide emissions (and of nitrate in the pore water). CO₂ emissions, however, were slightly lower than at the reference site, which ist deeply drained and also used as intensive grassland.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109309