Tropical peatlands in the anthropocene: Lessons from the past

Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's “Wet Tropics”

(2021) Patrick Roberts et al.   iScience

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

(2021) Carl Folke et al.   AMBIO

Impoverishment of local wild resources in western Amazonia: a large-scale community survey of local ecological knowledge

(2020) Oliver Coomes et al.   Environmental Research Letters

First Evidence of Peat Domes in the Congo Basin using LiDAR from a Fixed-Wing Drone

(2020) Ian J. Davenport et al.   Remote Sensing

The oldest extant tropical peatland in the world: a major carbon reservoir for at least 47,000 years

(2020) Monika Ruwaimana et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change

(2020) Kelly Ribeiro et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long‐term ecological legacies in western Amazonia

(2020) Christine M. Åkesson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia

(2020) Sara A. Thornton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Tropical peatlands under siege: the need for evidence-based policies and strategies

(2019) Daniel Murdiyarso et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Uses, cultural significance, and management of peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon: Implications for conservation

(2019) Christopher Schulz et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A wetland ecosystem service assessment tool; Development and application in a tropical peatland in Uganda

(2019) Charlie Langan et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Congo Basin drying associated with poleward shifts of the African thermal lows

(2019) Kerry H. Cook et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Towards an improved understanding of greenhouse gas emissions and fluxes in tropical peatlands of Southeast Asia

(2019) Prashant Kumar et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Peatland forests are the least diverse tree communities documented in Amazonia, but contribute to high regional beta-diversity

(2018) Frederick C. Draper et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Response of testate amoebae to a late Holocene ecosystem shift in an Amazonian peatland

(2018) Graeme T. Swindles et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Carbon emissions from South-East Asian peatlands will increase despite emission-reduction schemes

(2018) Lahiru S. Wijedasa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The application of resilience concepts in palaeoecology

(2018) Althea L Davies et al.   HOLOCENE

Novel ecosystems: Governance and conservation in the age of the Anthropocene

(2018) Sarah Clement et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Continuous human presence without extensive reductions in forest cover over the past 2500 years in an aseasonal Amazonian rainforest

(2018) Thomas J. Kelly et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Is Indonesian peatland loss a cautionary tale for Peru? A two-country comparison of the magnitude and causes of tropical peatland degradation

(2018) Erik Lilleskov et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Congo Basin peatlands: threats and conservation priorities

(2018) Greta C. Dargie et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

The underappreciated potential of peatlands in global climate change mitigation strategies

(2018) J. Leifeld et al.   Nature Communications

Potential shift from a carbon sink to a source in Amazonian peatlands under a changing climate

(2018) Sirui Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From carbon sink to carbon source: extensive peat oxidation in insular Southeast Asia since 1990

(2017) Jukka Miettinen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Ecosystem state shifts during long-term development of an Amazonian peatland

(2017) Graeme T. Swindles et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

(2017) Lahiru S. Wijedasa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex

(2017) Greta C. Dargie et al.   NATURE

The threat of road expansion in the Peruvian Amazon

(2017) Geoffrey R. Gallice et al.   ORYX

The vegetation history of an Amazonian domed peatland

(2017) Thomas J. Kelly et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The ‘cultured rainforests’ of Borneo

(2017) Graeme Barker et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Late Pleistocene to recent: Human activities in the deep interior equatorial rainforest of Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo

(2017) Vida P.R. Kusmartono et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Conceptualizing vegetation in the Bantu Expansion: Reflections on linguistics in central African history

(2017) Kathryn M. de Luna   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Environmental dynamics and carbon accumulation rate of a tropical peatland in Central Sumatra, Indonesia

(2017) Kartika Anggi Hapsari et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

(2017) C. Levis et al.   SCIENCE

Ecology, livelihoods, and management of the Mauritia flexuosa palm in South America

(2017) Arika Virapongse et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Peatlands and Global Change: Response and Resilience

(2016) S.E. Page et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Where Are the Lightning Hotspots on Earth?

(2016) Rachel I. Albrecht et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

In the line of fire: the peatlands of Southeast Asia

(2016) S. E. Page et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A 6900-year history of landscape modification by humans in lowland Amazonia

(2016) M.B. Bush et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Long-term man–environment interactions in the Bolivian Amazon: 8000 years of vegetation dynamics

(2016) Sandra O. Brugger et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Land cover distribution in the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2015 with changes since 1990

(2016) Jukka Miettinen et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Charcoal-inferred Holocene fire and vegetation history linked to drought periods in the Democratic Republic of Congo

(2015) Wannes Hubau et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The onset of the palaeoanthropocene in Iceland: Changes in complex natural systems

(2015) Richard Streeter et al.   HOLOCENE

Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre-history: An ecological perspective

(2015) Mark B. Bush et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Long-term disturbance dynamics and resilience of tropical peat swamp forests

(2015) Lydia E. S. Cole et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

(2015) Timothy M. Shanahan et al.   Nature Geoscience

8000 years of vegetation dynamics and environmental changes of a unique inland peat ecosystem of the Jambi Province in Central Sumatra, Indonesia

(2015) Siria Biagioni et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest

(2015) Charles R. Clement et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Anthropocene concept in ecology and conservation

(2015) Richard T. Corlett   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Forest dynamics and tip-up pools drive pulses of high carbon accumulation rates in a tropical peat dome in Borneo (Southeast Asia)

(2015) René Dommain et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon

(2014) Christopher P. Barber et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia

(2014) Frederick C Draper et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

(2014) Richard J Hobbs et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

(2014) Sofie Sjögersten et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

First Early Hominin from Central Africa (Ishango, Democratic Republic of Congo)

(2014) Isabelle Crevecoeur et al.   PLoS One

Glacial forcing of central Indonesian hydroclimate since 60,000 y B.P.

(2014) J. M. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbon storage and release in Indonesian peatlands since the last deglaciation

(2014) René Dommain et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Geochemistry of Amazonian Peats

(2014) Ian T. Lawson et al.   WETLANDS

Improving estimates of tropical peatland area, carbon storage, and greenhouse gas fluxes

(2014) I. T. Lawson et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

(2013) Alistair W. R. Seddon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Vegetation development in an Amazonian peatland

(2013) K.H. Roucoux et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Tropical Peat Accumulation in Central Amazonia

(2013) Outi Lähteenoja et al.   WETLANDS

Holocene fires, forest stability and human occupation in south-western Amazonia

(2012) Dunia H. Urrego et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Pre-Columbian fire regimes in lowland tropical rainforests of southeastern Peru

(2012) C.H. McMichael et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Peatland degradation and conversion sequences and interrelations in Sumatra

(2012) Jukka Miettinen et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Sparse Pre-Columbian Human Habitation in Western Amazonia

(2012) C. H. McMichael et al.   SCIENCE

Peatlands of the Madre de Dios River of Peru: Distribution, Geomorphology, and Habitat Diversity

(2012) J. Ethan Householder et al.   WETLANDS

Biodiversity and Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests

(2011) Mary Rose C. Posa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The large Amazonian peatland carbon sink in the subsiding Pastaza-Marañón foreland basin, Peru

(2011) Outi Lähteenoja et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Remotely sensed evidence of tropical peatland conversion to oil palm

(2011) L. P. Koh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early Holocene vegetation, human activity and climate from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

(2011) C.O. Hunt et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Between Sierra and Selva: Landscape transformations in upper Ecuadorian Amazonia

(2011) Stéphen Rostain   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Development and carbon sequestration of tropical peat domes in south-east Asia: links to post-glacial sea-level changes and Holocene climate variability

(2011) René Dommain et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Tropical Histosols of the lower Orinoco Delta, features and preliminary quantification of their carbon storage

(2010) Teresa Vegas-Vilarrúbia et al.   GEODERMA

Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool

(2010) SUSAN E. PAGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data

(2010) K.J. Willis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Amazonian floodplains harbour minerotrophic and ombrotrophic peatlands

(2009) Outi Lähteenoja et al.   CATENA

Amazonian peatlands: an ignored C sink and potential source

(2009) OUTI LÄHTEENOJA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fire and climate change impacts on lowland forest composition in northern Congo during the last 2580 years from palaeoecological analyses of a seasonally flooded swamp

(2009) Terry M. Brncic et al.   HOLOCENE

Restoration Ecology of Lowland Tropical Peatlands in Southeast Asia: Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions

(2008) Susan Page et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Spatiotemporal fire occurrence in Borneo over a period of 10 years

(2008) ANDREAS LANGNER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records

(2008) Mike Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Emerging issues in biodiversity & conservation management: The need for a palaeoecological perspective

(2008) C.A. Froyd et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS