Sentences with phrase «freshwater peat soils»

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The problem is the forests, soils and peat bogs flooded by the reservoirs, say John Rudd and colleagues from the Canadian government's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg in the current issue of Ambio.

They include sea level rise, which is pushing saltwater into freshwater marshes and causing their peat - rich soils to collapse, and drought caused in part by the diversion of freshwater into South Florida's booming metro areas.

This includes carbon on land in vegetation, soils, peat and freshwater and in the atmosphere, ocean and surface ocean sediments.