Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options

M Abdalla, A Hastings, J Truu… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Northern peatlands constitute a significant source of atmospheric methane (CH 4). However,
management of undisturbed peatlands, as well as the restoration of disturbed peatlands, will …

Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence‐based approach

LPM Lamers, MA Vile, AP Grootjans… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fens represent a large array of ecosystem services, including the highest biodiversity found
among wetlands, hydrological services, water purification and carbon sequestration. Land …

Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions

CD Evans, M Peacock, AJ Baird, RRE Artz, A Burden… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Global peatlands store more carbon than is naturally present in the atmosphere,. However,
many peatlands are under pressure from drainage-based agriculture, plantation …

Greenhouse gas emission factors associated with rewetting of organic soils

D Wilson, D Blain, J Couwenberg, CD Evans… - 2016 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Drained organic soils are a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the
atmosphere. Rewetting these soils may reduce GHG emissions and could also create …

Agricultural peatland restoration: effects of land‐use change on greenhouse gas (CO2 and CH4) fluxes in the Sacramento‐San Joaquin Delta

SH Knox, C Sturtevant, JH Matthes… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural drainage of organic soils has resulted in vast soil subsidence and contributed to
increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. The Sacramento‐San Joaquin …

Greenhouse gas emissions from European soils under different land use: effects of soil moisture and temperature

G Schaufler, B Kitzler, A Schindlbacher… - European Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In order to estimate potential greenhouse gas flux rates from soils under different land use
and climate, and to particularly assess the influence of soil temperature and soil moisture …

Warming effects on greenhouse gas fluxes in peatlands are modulated by vegetation composition

SE Ward, NJ Ostle, S Oakley, H Quirk… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the effects of warming on greenhouse gas feedbacks to climate change
represents a major global challenge. Most research has focused on direct effects of …

Upscaled diurnal cycles of land–atmosphere fluxes: a new global half-hourly data product

P Bodesheim, M Jung, F Gans… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere can be well characterized by fluxes
between the two. In particular, carbon and energy fluxes play a major role in understanding …

The current greenhouse gas impact of forestry-drained boreal peatlands

P Ojanen, K Minkkinen, T Penttilä - Forest ecology and management, 2013 - Elsevier
We estimated the soil CO2 balance of 68 forestry-drained boreal peatland sites in Finland by
subtracting the litter input to soil from the CO2 efflux from soil. We also measured soil …

The impacts of land‐use and climate change on the Zoige peatland carbon cycle: A review

PPJ Gaffney, Q Tang, Q Li, R Zhang… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Zoige peatlands are the largest peatland area in China, and the largest high‐altitude
peatland in the world. As with many peatlands worldwide, degradation from land …