Mapping and monitoring peatland conditions from global to field scale

B Minasny, DV Adetsu, M Aitkenhead, RRE Artz… - Biogeochemistry, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Peatlands cover only 3–4% of the Earth's surface, but they store nearly 30% of
global soil carbon stock. This significant carbon store is under threat as peatlands continue …

The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands

NT Girkin, PJ Burgess, L Cole, HV Cooper… - Carbon …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Peatlands are a globally important carbon store, but peatland ecosystems from high
latitudes to the tropics are highly degraded due to increasingly intensive anthropogenic …

Degradation increases peat greenhouse gas emissions in undrained tropical peat swamp forests

E Swails, S Frolking, J Deng, K Hergoualc'h - Biogeochemistry, 2024 - Springer
Tropical peat swamp degradation can modify net peat greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
even without drainage. However, current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …

Soil nitrous oxide and methane fluxes from a land-use change transition of primary forest to oil palm in an Indonesian peatland

E Swails, J Drewer, J Hartill, LP Comeau, LV Verchot… - Biogeochemistry, 2024 - Springer
Despite the documented increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Southeast
Asian peat swamp forest degradation and conversion to oil palm over recent decades …

A new data-driven map predicts substantial undocumented peatland areas in Amazonia

A Hastie, JE Householder… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Tropical peatlands are among the most carbon-dense terrestrial ecosystems yet recorded.
Collectively, they comprise a large but highly uncertain reservoir of the global carbon cycle …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial distribution of degradation and deforestation of palm swamp peatlands and associated carbon emissions in the Peruvian Amazon

MS Marcus, K Hergoualc'h, ENH Coronado… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The vast peat deposits in the Peruvian Amazon are crucial to the global climate. Palm
swamp, the most extensive regional peatland ecosystem faces different threats, including …

Net primary productivity and litter decomposition rates in two distinct Amazonian peatlands

GC Dargie, J del Aguila‐Pasquel… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of net primary productivity (NPP) and litter decomposition from tropical
peatlands are severely lacking, limiting our ability to parameterise and validate models of …

Soil properties and charcoal as proxies of variations driving pedogenesis in a savanna palm swamp (vereda): Insights into Quaternary climate and environmental …

I Horák-Terra, CB Viana, F Terra, M Pierre-Ledru… - CATENA, 2025 - Elsevier
Quaternary studies related to pedogenesis are still scarces. Thus, we present a new
approach based on morphological, physical, chemical, elemental, and isotopic soil …

An assessment of recent peat forest disturbances and their drivers in the Cuvette Centrale, Africa

K Nesha, M Herold, J Reiche… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The largest tropical peatland complex in the Cuvette Centrale is marked by persistent
knowledge gaps. We assessed recent peat forest disturbances and their direct drivers from …

Tropical peatland water table estimations from space

N Koupaei‐Abyazani, I Burdun… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical peatlands store copious amounts of carbon (C) and play a critical role in the global
C cycle. However, this C store is vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic disturbances …