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

K Ribeiro, FS Pacheco, JW Ferreira… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Peatlands are carbon‐rich ecosystems that cover 185–423 million hectares (Mha) of the
earth's surface. The majority of the world's peatlands are in temperate and boreal zones …

Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

J Loisel, AV Gallego-Sala, MJ Amesbury… - Nature climate …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Feedback in tropical forests of the Anthropocene

BM Flores, A Staal - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are complex systems containing myriad interactions and feedbacks with
their biotic and abiotic environments, but as the world changes fast, the future of these …

[HTML][HTML] Global soil profiles indicate depth-dependent soil carbon losses under a warmer climate

M Wang, X Guo, S Zhang, L Xiao, U Mishra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil organic carbon (SOC) changes under future climate warming are difficult to quantify in
situ. Here we apply an innovative approach combining space-for-time substitution with meta …

[HTML][HTML] Undoing equivalence: rethinking carbon accounting for just carbon removal

W Carton, JF Lund, K Dooley - Frontiers in Climate, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Concerns are increasingly raised over the centrality of carbon removal in climate policy,
particularly in the guise of 'net-zero'targets. Most significantly perhaps, treating emissions …

Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru

A Hastie, EN Honorio Coronado, J Reyna… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical peatlands are among the most carbon-dense ecosystems but land-use change has
led to the loss of large peatland areas, associated with substantial greenhouse gas …

Patterns in nonstructural carbohydrate contents at the tree organ level in response to drought duration

W He, H Liu, Y Qi, F Liu, X Zhu - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) facilitate the adaptation of trees to drought stress. There
have been a large number of studies exploring NSC changes in individual plant species and …

Conservation slows down emission increase from a tropical peatland in Indonesia

CS Deshmukh, D Julius, AR Desai, A Asyhari… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tropical peatlands are threatened by climate change and land-use changes, but there
remain substantial uncertainties about their present and future role in the global carbon …

Changes in groundwater dissolved organic matter character in a coastal sand aquifer due to rainfall recharge

LK McDonough, DM O'Carroll, K Meredith… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in groundwater is fundamentally important with respect to
biogeochemical reactions, global carbon cycling, heavy metal transport, water treatability …

[HTML][HTML] Seize the means of carbon removal: The political economy of direct air capture

A Malm, W Carton - Historical Materialism, 2021 - brill.com
The left must confront the politics of removing carbon from the atmosphere–a topic rapidly
making its way to the top of the climate agenda. We here examine the technology of direct …