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On the nature and origin of Peat and Peat-bogs [PDF]
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 1880 n ...
T. Rupert Jones
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Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data
Nature Geoscience, 2022 The world’s largest tropical peatland complex is found in the central Congo Basin. However, there is a lack of in situ measurements to understand the peatland’s distribution and the amount of carbon stored in it.
Bart Crezee +26 more
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Dating basal peat: The geochronology of peat initiation revisited
Quaternary Geochronology, 2022 Attributing the start of peat growth to an absolute timescale requires dating the bottom of peat deposits overlying mineral sediment, often called the basal peat. Peat initiation is reflected in the stratigraphy as a gradual transition from mineral sediment to increasingly organic material, up to where it is called peat.
Cindy Quik +9 more
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Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation
Nature Communications, 2020 Conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to drainage-based agriculture alters greenhouse gas (GHG) production, but the magnitude of these changes remains highly uncertain.
H. Cooper +5 more
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, 2010 . New burned area datasets and top-down constraints from atmospheric concentration measurements of pyrogenic gases have decreased the large uncertainty in fire emissions estimates. However, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the contribution
G. R. van der Werf +10 more
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Tropical peatland carbon storage linked to global latitudinal trends in peat recalcitrance
Nature Communications, 2018 Peatlands represent large terrestrial carbon banks. Given that most peat accumulates in boreal regions, where low temperatures and water saturation preserve organic matter, the existence of peat in (sub)tropical regions remains enigmatic.
S. Hodgkins +24 more
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Shallow peat is most vulnerable to high peat burn severity during wildfire
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Peatlands typically act as carbon sinks, however, increasing wildfire severity and annual area burned may challenge this carbon sink status. Whilst most peat resistance to wildfire and drought research is based on deep peatlands that rarely lose their ...
S. Wilkinson +4 more
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Ecology, 2019 Coastal wetlands are susceptible to loss in both health and extent via stressors associated with global climate change and anthropogenic disturbance. Peat collapse may represent an additional phenomenon contributing to coastal wetland loss in organic ...
Lisa G. Chambers +2 more
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Carbon in Peat on Earth through Time (C-PEAT) [PDF]
Past Global Changes Magazine, 2014 pool in the terrestrial biosphere. In the form of peat (organic soils) they store at present ~600 Pg c , accumulated mostly since the Last Glacial Maximum. We know that peatlands played an important role in the global c cycle during the Holocene as also recognized by the IPcc A r5 (c iais et al. 2013); however, we still lack a full understanding of how
Yu, Z. +4 more
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Hydraulic properties of peat soils along a bulk density gradient—A meta study
Hydrological Processes, 2018 Our understanding of hydraulic properties of peat soils is limited compared with that of mineral substrates. In this study, we aimed to deduce possible alterations of hydraulic properties of peat soils following degradation resulting from peat drainage ...
Haojie Liu, B. Lennartz
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