Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems

A Goldstein, WR Turner, SA Spawn… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires rapid decarbonization and improved
ecosystem stewardship. To achieve the latter, ecosystems should be prioritized by …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics, main impacts, and stewardship of natural and artificial freshwater environments: consequences for biodiversity conservation

M Cantonati, S Poikane, CM Pringle, LE Stevens… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all
main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

[PDF][PDF] Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, AA Hatab… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2023 - library.wur.nl
Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

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 …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions

J Zou, AD Ziegler, D Chen, G McNicol, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon and nitrogen losses from degraded wetlands and methane emissions from flooded
wetlands are both important sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the net …

The potential of peatlands as nature-based climate solutions

M Strack, SJ Davidson, T Hirano, C Dunn - Current Climate Change …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Despite covering only 3% of the land surface, peatlands
represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock on the planet and continue to act as a …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing costs of Indonesian fires and the benefits of restoring peatland

L Kiely, DV Spracklen, SR Arnold… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Deforestation and drainage has made Indonesian peatlands susceptible to burning. Large
fires occur regularly, destroying agricultural crops and forest, emitting large amounts of CO2 …

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 carbonrich 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 …