Abstract Background Oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, is by far the most important global oil crop,
supplying about 40% of all traded vegetable oil. Palm oils are key dietary components …

Tropical peatlands store around one-sixth of the global peatland carbon pool (105
gigatonnes), equivalent to 30% of the carbon held in rainforest vegetation. Deforestation …

Purpose Forests play a critical role in terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling and the mitigation
of global climate change. Intensive forest management and global climate change have had …

Tropical peatlands are fragile ecosystems with an important role in conserving biodiversity,
water quality and availability, preventing floods, soil intrusion, erosion and sedimentation …

About half of the world's tropical peatlands occur in Southeast (SE) Asia, where they serve
as a major carbon (C) sink. Nearly 80% of natural peatlands in this region have been …

Peatlands offer a series of ecosystem services including carbon storage, biomass
production, and climate regulation. Climate change and rapid land use change are …

Conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to drainage-based agriculture alters greenhouse
gas (GHG) production, but the magnitude of these changes remains highly uncertain …

This Opinion highlights several successful cases of biofuel technologies recently described
by the IEA Bioenergy Intertask Report on Lessons Learned. The report discussed the …

Peatlands are important carbon sinks, therefore their degradation mainly due to lowering of
the water table, has an adverse effect to the carbon cycle and largely burden the …

In 2008, the very extensive tropical peats were estimated to be about 182 million ha
spanning South America, Asia and Africa. About 20.3%(36.9 million ha) of this area exist in …