Sentences with phrase «peat soil carbon»

Carlson, K., Goodman, L., & May - Tobin, C. (2015) Modeling relationships between water table depth and peat soil carbon loss in Southeast Asian plantations.

DOI: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/10 / 7 / 074006 Modeling relationships between water table depth and peat soil carbon loss in Southeast Asian plantations

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Tangible effects nearby also appear: clinking our peat soil by water extraction is also a form of land degradation, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore triggering climate change.

Indonesia's sprawling tropical forests and peat soils act as a massive carbon storage sink but have been heavily deforested and degraded in recent years, primarily by palm oil companies and the pulp - paper giants Asian Pulp and Paper and Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd..

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

There's a whole lot of carbon up there stored in the peat and other frozen soils.

He also totally ignores the carbon sinks like peat bogs and soils that may release CO2 and methane as they are warmed.

When these trees are cut down or they burn, the peat soils underneath are exposed, releasing carbon dioxide as the peat oxidizes and decomposes.

North Carolina's Albemarle - Pamlico peninsula is a patchwork of peat soils called pocosins (Algonquin for «swamp on a hill»), thick deposits of decomposed plant matter that store high amounts of carbon.

Landowners who restore peat soils can use this methodology to document and sell carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market.

Similarly CIFOR research suggests that the rewetting of drained peat — a measure to prevent carbon emissions released from forest fires and peat degradation - could increase levels of methane from the soil.

The loss of permafrost is of particular concern — when permafrost melts, it releases carbon stored in the soils, and when boreal forests and peat bogs burn, they release carbon stored in the trees and peat.

The fact that these Indonesian rainforests have thick peat layers as soil actually makes them impressive carbon stores.

Judging by satellite and field measurements they concluded the burning peat soils released more carbon than the burning vegetation — about 4 to 5 times as much.

These regions are crucial to the global carbon cycle because they are rich in soil organic carbon, which has built up in frozen soils and peat layers over thousands of years.

Warming results in more carbon dioxide release from soil and peat moss — it is some 20 % of the fossil fuel emissions.

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

Coastal mangrove forests can contain much more carbon per unit area than their terrestrial counterparts: This coastal «blue» carbon has been deposited on every tide over thousands of years and is stored in deep peat soils.

The carbon cycle underwrites all life: plants and microbes withdraw carbon from the atmosphere and some of it gets stored in the soils, preserved as peat, or locked away as rock, or frozen as ice to be returned to the planetary system in all sorts of ways,

The study included carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and producing chemicals and cement but excluded emissions from activities like deforestation and logging, forest and peat fires, the decay of biomass after burning and decomposition of organic carbon in drained peat soils.

The interim results are the first time that a GHG emissions profile has been broken down into its «constituent elements of forest carbon stock change, non-CO2 emissions from biomass burning, CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from mineral soil, as well as biological oxidation and direct N2 O, dissolved organic carbon and CH4 emissions from disturbed peat, and CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from peat fire.»

However, these models do not yet include many processes and reservoirs that may be important, such as peat, buried carbon in permafrost soils, wild fires, ocean eddies and the response of marine ecosystems to ocean acidification.

• Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soils.

Because creating the plantations often means burning the tropical forest and draining the underlying peat soils, there's an initial large release of stored carbon.

These «degraded» lands however still contain large amounts of carbon in the case of water logged organic peat soils.

That is because a healthy forest soaks up carbon from the atmosphere and stores it as wood, peat and soil carbon, some of it for decades, some for millennia.