Restoring Peatlands: Evidence-Based Insights for Policymakers [PDF]
, 2023 Restoring peatlands not only has the potential to promote biodiverse ecosystems but also to mitigate climate change, improve soil health, increase the resilience of ecosystems to extreme weather events, and increase agricultural productivity.
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Degradation changes stable carbon isotope depth profiles in palsa peatlands [PDF]
, 2014 Palsa peatlands are a significant carbon pool in the global carbon cycle and are projected to change by global warming due to accelerated permafrost thaw. Our aim was to use stable carbon isotopes as indicators of palsa degradation.
Leifeld, J. +5 more
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Genesis and abiotic characteristics of three high-altitude peatlands in the Tien Shan Mountains (Kyrgyzstan), with focus on silty peatland substrates [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2016 Peatlands are scarce and threatened ecosystems in the semiarid region of Kyrgyzstan. Knowledge about the Kyrgyz peatlands is still poor and, especially, their genesis has hardly been investigated so far.
R. Müller +3 more
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Breeding bird populations of Irish peatlands : capsule peatlands are very important habitats for birds despite low species diversity [PDF]
, 2008 Aims to describe the variation in breeding bird populations that occur on different types of Irish peatlands and their associated habitat characteristics.
Bracken, Fintan +2 more
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Peatlands of the boreal zone and their utilization in forestry
Silva Fennica, 1990 The paper is a review on utilization of peatlands in forestry in the countries of boreal zone: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Canada, the United States and the Soviet Union.
Päivänen, Juhani
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Peatlands and the carbon cycle: from local processes to global implications – a synthesis [PDF]
, 2008 Peatlands cover only 3% of the Earth's land surface but boreal and subarctic peatlands store about 15–30% of the world's soil carbon (C) as peat.
F. Berendse +19 more
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Towards spatial assessment of carbon sequestration in peatlands: spectroscopy based estimation of fractional cover of three plant functional types [PDF]
, 2008 Peatlands accumulated large carbon (C) stocks as peat in historical times. Currently however, many peatlands are on the verge of becoming sources with their C sequestration function becoming sensitive to environmental changes such as increases in ...
G. Schaepman-Strub +17 more
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SN Applied Sciences, 2022 Given the high precipitation verified in the Azores, peatlands, as water retention structures, are promoters of landscape balance, reducing the frequency of major events such as landslides.
Dinis Pereira +2 more
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Characteristics of Lowland Tropical Peatlands: Formation, Classification, and Decomposition
Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment, 2020 Tropical peatlands occur mostly in coastal lowlands, and it can be considered as larger sinkers of carbon and important ecosystem services for water resources, bio-resources and biodiversity.
A.S. Ratnayake
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Environmental Microbiome, 2023 Background Peatlands contain about 500 Pg of carbon worldwide and play a dual role as both a carbon sink and an important methane (CH4) source, thereby potentially influencing climate change. However, systematic studies on peat properties, microorganisms,
Xuhui Chen +7 more
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