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 …

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 …

Many peatlands in Europe and North America have been developed for agriculture for over
a century, whilst in Southeast Asia development has largely occurred since 1990. Cultivation …

Peatlands cover approximately 4.2 million km 2 of terrestrial land surface and store up to
700 Pg of terrestrial carbon. Preserving the carbon stocks in peatland is therefore crucial for …

Indonesia has about 20-21 Mha of peatland (Wahyunto et al. 2003, 2004 & 2006; Page &
Rieley 2016) including 13 Mha in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Table 1). Most of these …

Tropical peatlands now emit hundreds of megatons of carbon dioxide per year because of
human disruption of the feedbacks that link peat accumulation and groundwater hydrology …

Abstract Information on temporal and spatial variations in soil greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes
from tropical peat forests is essential to predict the influence of climate change and estimate …

The saturated soil hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) is a key parameter in many hydrological and
climate models. Ksat values are primarily determined from basic soil properties and may …

Neotropical peatlands emit large amounts of methane (CH 4) from the soil surface, but fluxes
from tree stems in these ecosystems are unknown. In this study we investigated CH 4 …

Indonesia and Peru harbor some of the largest lowland tropical peatland areas. Indonesian
peatlands are subject to much greater anthropogenic activity than Peru's, including …