Sentences with phrase «bare peat»

And they found that the highest post-thaw emissions of nitrous oxide came from the bare peat soils: these emissions were fivefold those from still - frozen soils and matched the kind of outgassing observed in tropical soils, which are the world's largest natural land - based nitrous oxide source.

New research explores the source of unexpectedly high nitrous oxide emissions from such bare peat soils in Arctic tundra.

This assumption, however, was contradicted by scientists from the University of Eastern Finland a decade ago, when they discovered that bare peat surfaces in permafrost peatlands are releasing high amounts of N2O, despite the general nitrogen limitation of tundra ecosystems.

It could be a different story on large expanses of bare peat left behind by modern milling operations.

But on the other side of the road that bisects the moor lies a further 2500 hectares, a wasteland of bare peat that Fisons will be allowed to continue cutting until there is just half a metre of peat remaining — provided that there is a market for its product.

Not exact matches

The rest is barren, stripped of vegetation and shaved bare by the modern peat industry to provide British gardeners with peat for their potting compost and grow bags.