The carbon sink potential of peatlands depends on the balance of carbon uptake by plants
and microbial decomposition. The rates of both these processes will increase with warming …

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 …

Meter for meter, peatlands store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Covering
only about 3% of Earth's land area, they hold the equivalent of half of the carbon that is in the …

The carbon balance of peatlands is predicted to shift from a sink to a source this century.
However, peatland ecosystems are still omitted from the main Earth system models that are …

Peatlands occupy a relatively small fraction of the Earth's land area, but they are a globally
important carbon store because of their high carbon density. Undisturbed peatlands are …

Peatlands have acted as net CO2 sinks over millennia, exerting a global climate cooling
effect. Rapid warming at northern latitudes, where peatlands are abundant, can disturb their …

Aim Persistent sinks of atmospheric CO2 in undisturbed peatlands are not included in future
projections of the global carbon budget. We aimed to explore possible responses of …

Global peatlands store a very large carbon (C) pool located within a few meters of the
atmosphere. Thus, peatland‐atmosphere C exchange should be a major concern to global …

The carbon (C) storage of northern peatlands is equivalent to~ 34–46% of the~ 795 T g C
currently held in the atmosphere as CO2. Most studies report that northern peatlands are a …

Throughout the Holocene, the radiative forcing function of peatlands has shifted from a net
warming to a net cooling [Smith et al., 2004; Frolking et al., 2006], but the future impact of …