The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions

Carbon emissions reductions from Indonesia’s moratorium on forest concessions are cost-effective yet contribute little to Paris pledges

(2022) Ben Groom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rewetting Tropical Peatlands Reduced Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Riau Province, Indonesia

(2022) Iska Lestari et al.   Forests

Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits

(2021) Alice Di Sacco et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2021) Shailendra Mishra et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions

(2021) C. D. Evans et al.   NATURE

Hot moments drive extreme nitrous oxide and methane emissions from agricultural peatlands

(2021) Tyler L. Anthony et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Conservation slows down emission increase from a tropical peatland in Indonesia

(2021) Chandra S. Deshmukh et al.   Nature Geoscience

The climate benefits of topsoil removal and Sphagnum introduction in raised bog restoration

(2021) Vytas Huth et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

An improved drought-fire assessment for managing fire risks in tropical peatlands

(2021) Muh Taufik et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands

(2021) Lorna I Harris et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Comparing GHG Emissions from Drained Oil Palm and Recovering Tropical Peatland Forests in Malaysia

(2021) Siti Noor Fitriah Azizan et al.   Water

The role of northern peatlands in the global carbon cycle for the 21st century

(2020) Chunjing Qiu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges

(2020) Nathalie Seddon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prompt rewetting of drained peatlands reduces climate warming despite methane emissions

(2020) Anke Günther et al.   Nature Communications

Protection of Permafrost Soils from Thawing by Increasing Herbivore Density

(2020) Christian Beer et al.   Scientific Reports

Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

(2020) Gustaf Hugelius et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cost-effective land-use options of drained peatlands– integrated biophysical-economic modeling approach

(2020) Artti Juutinen et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

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

(2020) Kelly Ribeiro et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Are peatlands cool humid islands in a landscape?

(2020) Fred Worrall et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Paludiculture as a sustainable land use alternative for tropical peatlands: A review

(2020) Zu Dienle Tan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

(2020) J. Loisel et al.   Nature Climate Change

Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions from Peat Soil in an Undrained Tropical Peat Swamp Forest

(2019) Kiwamu Ishikura et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Second edition

(2019) George D. Gann et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Rapid expansion of northern peatlands and doubled estimate of carbon storage

(2019) Jonathan E. Nichols et al.   Nature Geoscience

Road Crossings Increase Methane Emissions From Adjacent Peatland

(2019) S. Saraswati et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

How do land use practices affect methane emissions from tropical peat ecosystems?

(2019) Guan Xhuan Wong et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Prompt active restoration of peatlands substantially reduces climate impact

(2019) Kelly A Nugent et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Rewetting degraded peatlands for climate and biodiversity benefits: Results from two raised bogs

(2018) F. Renou-Wilson et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Review of emissions from smouldering peat fires and their contribution to regional haze episodes

(2018) Yuqi Hu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Wetlands In a Changing Climate: Science, Policy and Management

(2018) William R. Moomaw et al.   WETLANDS

The underappreciated potential of peatlands in global climate change mitigation strategies

(2018) J. Leifeld et al.   Nature Communications

THE EFFECTS OF BLACK SPRUCE FUEL MANAGEMENT ON SURFACE FUEL CONDITION AND PEAT BURN SEVERITY IN AN EXPERIMENTAL FIRE

(2018) Sophie Wilkinson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Multi-year net ecosystem carbon balance of a restored peatland reveals a return to carbon sink

(2018) Kelly A. Nugent et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2018) Suzanne B. Hodgkins et al.   Nature Communications

Potential impacts of climate change on the habitat of boreal woodland caribou

(2018) Quinn E. Barber et al.   Ecosphere

Low Evapotranspiration Enhances the Resilience of Peatland Carbon Stocks to Fire

(2017) N. Kettridge et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor

(2017) Thomas Gumbricht et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2017) Greta C. Dargie et al.   NATURE

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil carbon dioxide emissions from a rubber plantation on tropical peat

(2017) Nur Wakhid et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under Different Drainage and Flooding Regimes of Cultivated Peatlands

(2017) Jing Hu et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

To graze or not to graze? Four years greenhouse gas balances and vegetation composition from a drained and a rewetted organic soil under grassland

(2016) F. Renou-Wilson et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Peatlands and Global Change: Response and Resilience

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

Multiyear greenhouse gas balances at a rewetted temperate peatland

(2016) David Wilson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Keep wetlands wet: the myth of sustainable development of tropical peatlands - implications for policies and management

(2016) Stephanie Evers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Managing peatland vegetation for drinking water treatment

(2016) Jonathan P. Ritson et al.   Scientific Reports

Mitigating wildfire carbon loss in managed northern peatlands through restoration

(2016) Gustaf Granath et al.   Scientific Reports

Fire carbon emissions over maritime southeast Asia in 2015 largest since 1997

(2016) V. Huijnen et al.   Scientific Reports

Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss

(2015) Merritt R. Turetsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Drivers of Holocene peatland carbon accumulation across a climate gradient in northeastern North America

(2015) Dan J. Charman et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Year-round growing conditions explains large CO2 sink strength in a New Zealand raised peat bog

(2014) David I. Campbell et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

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

The effect of biomass harvesting on greenhouse gas emissions from a rewetted temperate fen

(2014) Anke Günther et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Agricultural peatland restoration: effects of land-use change on greenhouse gas (CO2and CH4) fluxes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

(2014) Sara Helen Knox et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from reed canary grass in paludiculture: effect of groundwater level

(2014) Sandhya Karki et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Mud, muddle and models in the knowledge value-chain to action on tropical peatland conservation

(2014) Meine van Noordwijk et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Carbon dioxide emissions through oxidative peat decomposition on a burnt tropical peatland

(2013) Takashi Hirano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global peatland dynamics since the Last Glacial Maximum

(2010) Zicheng Yu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool

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

Carbon Storage and Fluxes within Freshwater Wetlands: a Critical Review

(2010) Birol Kayranli et al.   WETLANDS

Methane Dynamics in Northern Peatlands: A Review

(2009) D.Y.F. LAI   PEDOSPHERE

High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback

(2008) Takeshi Ise et al.   Nature Geoscience