… Most tropical peatlands, especially in … tropical peatland carbon store, we also need to have
a better understanding of current land-use practices (including fire) on tropical peatlands as …

… Our results show that near-surface (sub)tropical peat has lower carbohydrate and greater
aromatic content than near-surface Arctic and boreal peat, making (sub)tropical peat more …

… Carbon storage capacity To evaluate the capacity of tropical peatland drainage networks
to store carbon, we used an equation derived in [25] that relates equilibrium peat dome …

… Our limited knowledge of the size of the carbon pool and exchange fluxes in forested lowland
tropical peatlands represents a major gap in our understanding of the global carbon cycle. …

… New opportunities for protection of the tropical peat carbon store may arise from current
negotiations on financial payments for reduced emissions from avoided deforestation and forest …

… Bringing together the most up-to-date estimates of peatland area, peat depth, peat volume
and peat carbon content, we estimate that tropical peatlands store 152–288 Gt of carbon, …

… ’s peatlands, they are responsible for up to 37% of this potential. Tropical peatlands also
contain 10 times more carbon … and boreal zone peatlands contain 3.5 and 7 times more carbon, …

… of tropical peatlands in the global carbon cycle. We therefore determine the past rates of carbon
storage and release in the Indonesian peatlands of … concentration of tropical peatlands – …

… on tropical peatland area and thickness and calculate peat volume and carbon content in …
recognition of the importance of carbon storage in, and carbon gas emissions from, tropical …

… Data concerning tropical peat carbon fluxes are limited and qualitative and quantitative
differences amongst measurement approaches hinder data interpretations. Key difficulties in …