A review of techniques for effective tropical peatland restoration

A Dohong, A Abdul Aziz, P Dargusch - Wetlands, 2018 - Springer
Indonesia's peatlands have been subject to extensive deforestation and degradation
resulting from logging, drainage, fires and conversion to other land uses. A number of …

Erosion in peatlands: Recent research progress and future directions

C Li, R Grayson, J Holden, P Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Peatlands cover approximately 2.84% of global land area while storing one third to
one half of the world's soil carbon. While peat erosion is a natural process it has been …

Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

GT Swindles, PJ Morris, DJ Mullan, RJ Payne… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Climate warming and human impacts are thought to be causing peatlands to dry, potentially
converting them from sinks to sources of carbon. However, it is unclear whether the …

Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands

J Li, M Jiang, J Pei, C Fang, B Li, M Nie - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wetlands are strategic areas for carbon uptake, but accurate assessments of their
sequestration ability are limited by the uncertainty and variability in their carbon balances …

Meta‐analysis reveals that enhanced practices accelerate vegetation recovery during peatland restoration

JM Allan, M Guêné‐Nanchen, L Rochefort… - Restoration …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The provision of critical ecosystem services like carbon sequestration by peatlands has
been degraded around the globe. Peatland restoration represents an opportunity to tackle …

Challenges in delivering climate change policy through land use targets for afforestation and peatland restoration

I Brown - Environmental Science & Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change policy for the land sector is challenged by complex biophysical and
socioeconomic contexts. A target approach utilising land-use change indicators is often …

[HTML][HTML] Restoration of blanket peat moorland delays stormflow from hillslopes and reduces peak discharge

EL Shuttleworth, MG Evans, M Pilkington… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past 15 years there has been a proliferation of projects aiming to restore the
structure and function of UK upland blanket mires, primarily by revegetation of bare peat and …

Coconut Coir as a Sustainable Nursery Growing Media for Seedling Production of the Ecologically Diverse Quercus Species

B Mariotti, S Martini, S Raddi, A Tani, DF Jacobs… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Peat, a non-sustainable resource, is still predominately used in forest nurseries. Coconut
coir might provide an alternative, renewable, and reliable growing media but few studies …

Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland

L Alshammari, DJ Large, DS Boyd, A Sowter… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Satellite Earth Observation (EO) is often used as a cost-effective method to report on the
condition of remote and inaccessible peatland areas. Current EO techniques are primarily …

The impact of land‐cover change on flood peaks in peatland basins

J Gao, J Holden, M Kirkby - Water Resources Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In headwater peatlands, saturation‐excess overland flow is a dominant source of river
discharge. Human modifications to headwater peatlands result in vegetation cover change …