Quantitative palaeostudies of climate change and carbon dynamics are reliant on precise
and accurate laboratory measurements. Here we present laboratory protocols for the …

The humification process is one of the least understood and most intriguing aspects of
humus chemistry and vital to the global carbon (C) cycle. Peatlands represent the largest …

Peatlands provide a widespread terrestrial archive of Holocene environmental change. The
taphon omy of peat is relatively simple, the range of evidence and proxies is wide, and …

Peat, especially from acidic mires (bogs), is a natural archive of past environmental change.
Reconstructions of past climate from bogs commenced in the 19th Century through …

Peat humification analysis is a widely used palaeoclimate proxy. However, recent studies
combining humification with other proxies of mire surface wetness have identified …

Peat cores from ombrotrophic bogs have been used as a valuable archive to study
environmental change for over a century. Much of this focus on the peat record has been on …

Different methods of determining the degree of peat decomposition are reviewed, showing
fibre content and alkali-extraction as suitable methods. The NaOH extraction technique is …

Peatlands contain a large belowground carbon (C) stock in the biosphere, and their
dynamics have important implications for the global carbon cycle. However, there are still …

A high-resolution fen peat record and 79 basal peat dates from paludified peatlands in
continental western Canada provide evidence for cyclic change in moisture conditions and …

Peatlands are a major terrestrial carbon store and a persistent natural carbon sink during the
Holocene, but there is considerable uncertainty over the fate of peatland carbon in a …