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Restoration of blanket peatlands [PDF]

Journal of Environmental Management, 2014
There is concern that ecosystem services provided by blanket peatlands have come under threat due to increasing degradation. Blanket peatlands are subject to a wide range of drivers of degradation and are topographically variable. As a result, many degradation forms can develop, including those resulting from eroding artificial drainage, incising ...
Parry, Lauren E., Holden, Joseph, Chapman, Pippa J.   +2 more
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Implementing northern peatlands in a global land surface model: description and evaluation in the ORCHIDEE high-latitude version model (ORC-HL-PEAT) [PDF]

Geoscientific Model Development, 2018
Widely present in boreal regions, peatlands contain large carbon stocks because of their hydrologic properties and high water content, which makes primary productivity exceed decomposition rates. We have enhanced the global land surface model ORCHIDEE
C. Largeron, C. Largeron, C. Largeron, G. Krinner, P. Ciais, C. Brutel-Vuilmet   +5 more
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Climate and Peatlands

, 2010
Peatlands are an important natural archive for past climatic changes, primarily due to their sensitivity to changes in the water balance and the dating possibilities of peat sediments. In addition, peatlands are an important sink as well as potential source of greenhouse gases.
de Jong, Rixt, Blaauw, Maarten, Chambers, Frank M, Christensen, Torben R, de Vleeschouwer, François, Finsinger, Walter, Fronzek, Stefan, Johannson, Margareta, Kokfelt, Ulla, Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Le Roux, Gaël, Mauquoy, Dmitri, Mitchell, Edward A.D., Nichold, Jonathan E, Samaritani, Emanuela, Van Geel, Bas   +15 more
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Water beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of some peatlands in the North Caucasus

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2019
Montane peatlands occupy only 0.1% of the Caucasus territory and are present at altitudes of 600–3400 m a.s.l. Unlike vegetation and stratigraphy, insects of the peatlands have been studied poorly.
Alexander A. Prokin, Alexey S. Sazhnev, Dmitriy A. Philippov   +2 more
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Socio Economic Factors Causing Rapid Peatlands Degradation in South Sumatra

Sriwijaya Journal of Environment, 2019
Naturally peatlands ecosystem belongs to a stable ecosystem and tends to increase its peat thickness, but if the balance of its natural conditions is disturbed, then peatlands are easily degraded and lost altogether.
Elisa Wildayana, M. Edi Armanto, Imron Zahri, Dessy Adriani, Bella Syakina   +4 more
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The biophysical climate mitigation potential of boreal peatlands during the growing season

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Peatlands and forests cover large areas of the boreal biome and are critical for global climate regulation. They also regulate regional climate through heat and water vapour exchange with the atmosphere.
Manuel Helbig, James M Waddington, Pavel Alekseychik, Brian Amiro, Mika Aurela, Alan G Barr, T Andrew Black, Sean K Carey, Jiquan Chen, Jinshu Chi, Ankur R Desai, Allison Dunn, Eugenie S Euskirchen, Lawrence B Flanagan, Thomas Friborg, Michelle Garneau, Achim Grelle, Silvie Harder, Michal Heliasz, Elyn R Humphreys, Hiroki Ikawa, Pierre-Erik Isabelle, Hiroki Iwata, Rachhpal Jassal, Mika Korkiakoski, Juliya Kurbatova, Lars Kutzbach, Elena Lapshina, Anders Lindroth, Mikaell Ottosson Löfvenius, Annalea Lohila, Ivan Mammarella, Philip Marsh, Paul A Moore, Trofim Maximov, Daniel F Nadeau, Erin M Nicholls, Mats B Nilsson, Takeshi Ohta, Matthias Peichl, Richard M Petrone, Anatoly Prokushkin, William L Quinton, Nigel Roulet, Benjamin R K Runkle, Oliver Sonnentag, Ian B Strachan, Pierre Taillardat, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Jessica Turner, Masahito Ueyama, Andrej Varlagin, Timo Vesala, Martin Wilmking, Vyacheslav Zyrianov, Christopher Schulze   +56 more
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Towards net zero CO2 in 2050: An emission reduction pathway for organic soils in Germany [PDF]

Mires and Peat, 2021
The Paris Agreement reflects the global endeavour to limit the increase of global average temperature to 2 °C, better 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels to prevent dangerous climate change. This requires that global anthropogenic net carbon dioxide (CO2)
Franziska Tanneberger, Susanne Abel, John Couwenberg, Tobias Dahms, Greta Gaudig, Anke Günther, Jürgen Kreyling, Jan Peters, Julia Pongratz, Hans Joosten   +9 more
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Review: Fractal Geometry in Precipitation

Atmosphere
Rainfall, or more generally the precipitation process (flux), is a clear example of chaotic variables resulting from a highly nonlinear dynamical system, the atmosphere, which is represented by a set of physical equations such as the Navier–Stokes ...
Robert Monjo, Oliver Meseguer-Ruiz
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Responses of fine-root biomass and production to drying depend on wetness and site nutrient regime in boreal forested peatland

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
IntroductionPeatlands are terrestrial-carbon hotspots, where changes in carbon pools and fluxes potentially caused by drying or warming may have significant feedbacks to climate change. In forested peatlands, fine-root biomass (FRB), and production (FRP)
Maija Lampela, Kari Minkkinen, Petra Straková, Petra Straková, Rabbil Bhuiyan, Rabbil Bhuiyan, Wei He, Wei He, Päivi Mäkiranta, Paavo Ojanen, Paavo Ojanen, Timo Penttilä, Raija Laiho   +12 more
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Potential for Peatland Water Table Depth Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter: Case Study of Forsinard Flows, Scotland, UK

Remote Sensing, 2023
Peatland restoration has become a common land-use management practice in recent years, with the water table depth (WTD) being one of the key monitoring elements, where it is used as a proxy for various ecosystem functions.
Linda Toca, Rebekka R. E. Artz, Catherine Smart, Tristan Quaife, Keith Morrison, Alessandro Gimona, Robert Hughes, Mark H. Hancock, Daniela Klein   +8 more
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