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 ...
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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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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 In ecological restoration, especially in projects aiming at introducing a diverse plant community, species that do not establish are rarely reported., Yet, knowledge gained from identifying and understanding the reasons why species did not establish is ...
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Anthropogenic impacts on lowland tropical peatland biogeochemistry
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2022 Tropical peatlands store around one-sixth of the global peatland carbon pool (105 gigatonnes), equivalent to 30% of the carbon held in rainforest vegetation.
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Assessment of topsoil removal as an effective method for vegetation restoration in farmed peatlands
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Peatland areas have dramatically declined in the past century because of the demand for agriculture. Therefore, it is necessary to develop suitable techniques to preserve these unique ecosystems.
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A map of global peatland extent created using machine learning (Peat-ML)
Geoscientific Model Development, 2022 . Peatlands store large amounts of soil carbon and freshwater, constituting an important component of the global carbon and hydrologic cycles. Accurate information on the global extent and distribution of peatlands is presently lacking but is needed by ...
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Topographic and climatic controls of peatland distribution on the Tibetan Plateau
Scientific Reports, 2023 The Tibetan Plateau (TP) hosts a variety of mountain peatlands that are sensitive to the amplified warming in this region. However, we still lack a basic understanding of environmental and climatic factors controlling peatland distribution in the region.
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Significant underestimation of peatland permafrost along the Labrador Sea coastline in northern Canada [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Northern peatlands cover approximately four million km2, and about half of these peatlands are estimated to contain permafrost and periglacial landforms, like palsas and peat plateaus.
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Peatland fire regime across Riau peat hydrological unit, Indonesia
Forest and Society, 2023 Peatland stretches across approximately 8% of Indonesia’s land area. Peat fire disturbance, which affects the carbon dynamics of the ecosystem, will determine the country's vision for a long-term strategy for low carbon development.
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Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2022 Better tools for rapid and reliable assessment of global peatland extent and condition are urgently needed to support action to prevent further decline of peatlands.
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