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Peat deposits store more carbon than trees in forested peatlands of the boreal biome

Scientific Reports, 2021
Peatlands are significant carbon (C) stores, playing a key role in nature-based climate change mitigation. While the effectiveness of non-forested peatlands as C reservoirs is increasingly recognized, the C sequestration function of forested peatlands ...
Joannie Beaulne, Michelle Garneau, Gabriel Magnan, Étienne Boucher   +3 more
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Hydrological Conditions Outweigh Soil Texture, Temperature, and Terrain in German Agricultural Land Use

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The availability of fertile land suitable for agriculture is limited. In the European Union, political demand for self‐sufficiency in staple food production currently competes with increasing ambitions for nature restoration and green energy. Meanwhile, the overall agricultural area shrinks due to land sealing.
David Emde, Axel Don, Carsten W. Mueller, Florian Schneider   +3 more
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Using remote sensing to map degraded mountain peatlands with high climate mitigation potential in Colombia's Central Cordillera

Frontiers in Climate
Peatlands are the most carbon-dense ecosystems on earth. In tropical mountains, peatlands are numerous and susceptible to rapid degradation and carbon loss after human disturbances.
Michael J. Battaglia, Angela Lafuente, Juan C. Benavides, Erik A. Lilleskov, Rodney A. Chimner, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Patrick Nicolás Skillings-Neira, Patrick Nicolás Skillings-Neira   +7 more
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From shape to source: sedimentary charcoal morphology as a proxy for tropical burned biomass composition

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sedimentary charcoal elongation is increasingly being used in paleoecology to distinguish herbaceous from woody fuel in past fires. However, the relationship between charcoal morphotypes and plant types has never been formally tested in tropical environments, despite its potential to improve understanding of fire regimes and deforestation, and
Fiona Cornet, Vincent Montade, Stéphanie C. Bodin, Justine Descloitre, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Gaëlle Viennois, Julie C. Aleman, Chimène Assi‐Kaudjhis, William F. Kenney, Richard Oslisly, Monique G. Tossou, Laurent Bremond, Charly Favier   +12 more
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Decoupling climate and human impacts on the nitrogen cycle during the Irish Bronze Age

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disentangling climate variability and human activity in past nitrogen cycling is key to understanding ecosystems. Previous studies in Ireland observed a widespread, permanent shift in terrestrial nitrogen cycling during Later Prehistory, potentially linked to intensifying land‐use.
Sarah Ferrandin, Gill Plunkett, Neil Ogle   +2 more
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Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options

Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Northern peatlands constitute a significant source of atmospheric methane (CH4). However, management of undisturbed peatlands, as well as the restoration of disturbed peatlands, will alter the exchange of CH4 with the atmosphere.
Mohamed Abdalla, Astley Hastings, Jaak Truu, Mikk Espenberg, Ülo Mander, Pete Smith   +5 more
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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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Aquatic and Littoral Successions in Various Post‐Mining Sites—Patterns and Possible Use in Ecological Restoration

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vegetation succession in aquatic and littoral habitats has received much less attention than terrestrial habitats have. We sampled differently aged successional stages at five different types of post‐mining sites, that is, sandpits, stone quarries, clay quarries, brown coal spoil heaps and black coal subsidences, across the Czech Republic ...
Anna Müllerová, Klára Řehounková, Karel Prach   +2 more
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Does Palsa Thaw in Northern Finland Contribute to Remobilisation of Metals Accumulated in Peat Into Surface Waters?

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Permafrost is rapidly degrading in the sporadic zone, including palsa mires in Scandinavia. Peatlands in the area have likely accumulated heavy metals from atmospheric deposition of industrial contaminants in the wider region. As the palsa mire chemical composition is not well known, and in other permafrost regions the permafrost thaw may ...
Joanna Katarzyna Jóźwik, Krystyna Kozioł, Marcin Frankowski, Marta Jakubiak, Kamil Nowiński, Mariusz Jędrysek, Danuta Szumińska, Żaneta Polkowska   +7 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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