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The health impacts of Indonesian peatland fires
Environmental Health, 2022 Background Indonesian peatlands have been drained for agricultural development for several decades. This development has made a major contribution to economic development. At the same time, peatland drainage is causing significant air pollution resulting
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Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release
Nature Climate Change, 2023 Northern peatland carbon sink plays a vital role in climate regulation. Here, the authors show that wildfire reduced peatland carbon uptake and enhanced emissions from degraded peatlands; climate change impacts accelerated carbon losses where increased ...
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Mapping and monitoring peatland conditions from global to field scale
Biogeochemistry, 2023 Peatlands cover only 3–4% of the Earth’s surface, but they store nearly 30% of global soil carbon stock. This significant carbon store is under threat as peatlands continue to be degraded at alarming rates around the world.
B. Minasny +42 more
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Water-table-driven greenhouse gas emission estimates guide peatland restoration at national scale
Biogeosciences, 2023 . The substantial climate change mitigation potential of restoring peatlands through rewetting and intensifying agriculture to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is largely recognized.
J. Koch +7 more
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Climate warming and elevated CO2 alter peatland soil carbon sources and stability
Nature Communications, 2023 Peatlands are an important carbon (C) reservoir storing one-third of global soil organic carbon (SOC), but little is known about the fate of these C stocks under climate change.
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Peatland restoration pathways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and retain peat carbon
Biogeochemistry, 2023 Peatlands play a crucial role in the global carbon (C) cycle, making their restoration a key strategy for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and retaining C. This study analyses the most common restoration pathways employed in boreal and temperate
Ü. Mander +3 more
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National peatland strategies in Europe: current status, key themes, and challenges
Regional Environmental Change, 2023 Peatlands are globally important ecosystems that reflect many of today’s environmental challenges, particularly climate change and biodiversity loss.
R. Nordbeck, K. Hogl
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Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures
Ambio, 2023 Peatlands are among the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystems and hotspots of carbon storage. Although peatland drainage causes strong carbon emissions, land subsidence, fires and biodiversity loss, drainage-based agriculture and forestry on peatland is ...
R. Temmink +13 more
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Science of the Total Environment, 2022 Global climate is changing faster than humankind has ever experienced. Model-based predictions of future climate are becoming more complex and precise, but they still lack crucial information about the reaction of some important ecosystems, such as ...
Michal Antala +3 more
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Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance Over many millennia, northern peatlands have accumulated large amounts of carbon and nitrogen, thus cooling the global climate. Over shorter timescales, peatland disturbances can trigger losses of peat and release of greenhouses gases ...
G. Hugelius +13 more
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