Anthropogenic impacts on lowland tropical peatland biogeochemistry

S Page, S Mishra, F Agus, G Anshari… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Peatlands and global change: response and resilience

SE Page, AJ Baird - Annual review of environment and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems that accumulate dead organic matter (ie, peat) when
plant litter production outpaces peat decay, usually under conditions of frequent or …

Tropical peatland carbon storage linked to global latitudinal trends in peat recalcitrance

SB Hodgkins, CJ Richardson, R Dommain… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Peatlands represent large terrestrial carbon banks. Given that most peat accumulates in
boreal regions, where low temperatures and water saturation preserve organic matter, the …

Degradation of Southeast Asian tropical peatlands and integrated strategies for their better management and restoration

S Mishra, SE Page, AR Cobb, JSH Lee… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Tropical wetlands: a missing link in the global carbon cycle?

S Sjögersten, CR Black, S Evers… - Global …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical wetlands are not included in Earth system models, despite being an important
source of methane (CH4) and contributing a large fraction of carbon dioxide (CO2) …

Root exudate analogues accelerate CO2 and CH4 production in tropical peat

NT Girkin, BL Turner, N Ostle, J Craigon… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Root exudates represent a large and labile carbon input in tropical peatlands, but their
contribution to carbon dioxide (CO 2) and methane (CH 4) production remains poorly …

Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon

Y Cui, S Peng, M Delgado‐Baquerizo… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial communities in soils are generally considered to be limited by carbon (C), which
could be a crucial control for basic soil functions and responses of microbial heterotrophic …

The contribution of trees to ecosystem methane emissions in a temperate forested wetland

SR Pangala, ERC Hornibrook, DJ Gowing… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Wetland‐adapted trees are known to transport soil‐produced methane (CH 4), an important
greenhouse gas to the atmosphere, yet seasonal variations and controls on the magnitude …

Assessing nutrient limitation in complex forested ecosystems: alternatives to large‐scale fertilization experiments

BW Sullivan, S Alvarez-Clare, SC Castle, S Porder… - Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying nutrient limitation of primary productivity is a fundamental task of terrestrial
ecosystem ecology, but in a high carbon dioxide environment it is even more critical that we …

Differences in microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling in natural and drained tropical peatland soils

M Espenberg, M Truu, Ü Mander, K Kasak, H Nõlvak… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical peatlands, which play a crucial role in the maintenance of different ecosystem
services, are increasingly drained for agriculture, forestry, peat extraction and human …