Sentences with phrase «peat soils»

To help address this gap, Anderson et al. measured the size and direction of the carbon and energy fluxes from 7 hectares of wetlands restored in 1997 on peat soils in California's Sacramento — San Joaquin Delta.

As the WWF points out, many of these forests sit on top of some of the deepest peat soils in the world.

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.

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

This private sector - led initiative is part of the wider peat protection policy rolled out by President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo with the idea that rehabilitating peatlands by wetting peat soil and planting peat - friendly crops will make them less prone to fires.

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.

Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natural landscapes like peat soils, swamps and fields that play a crucial role in curbing climate change.

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

What's especially worrisome is that carbon - rich peat soils that have been accumulating for thousands of years are spread across much of this landscape, he said.

The research team investigated the anaerobic oxidation process at three freshwater wetlands in three biogeographical regions: the freshwater peat soils of the Florida Everglades; a coastal organic - rich wetland in Acadia National Park, Maine; and a tidal freshwater wetland in coastal Georgia.

The results suggest that the N2O emissions from bare tundra peat soils might be due to nitrifier denitrification, a microbial process that transforms ammonia (NH4) into N2 in a series of steps, one of which produces nitrous oxide.

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..

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

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.

There are many underlying causes for these fires, including the draining of swampy peat soils to make way for palm oil and pulpwood plantations and the use of illegal slash - and - burn practices by farmers

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.

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

In fact, it is likely that despite any added wealth brought in by expanding palm oil plantations on peat soils, the negative effects of climate change will wipe it all away.

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).

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

SACRAMENTO, CA, October 24, 2017 — The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, announces the approval of a milestone methodology developed by The Nature Conservancy and TerraCarbon to measure and verify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions from the restoration of peat soils.

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.

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

Carbon emissions are likely to increase, the study predicted, as most future forest clearance is planned for areas with deep peat soils.

If the peat soils were waterlogged, nitrous oxide release was entirely suppressed.

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.

Green groups had accused the company of tearing down rainforest without the proper government permits, operating on carbon - rich, deep peat soil and using fire to clear land.

«A wetter peat soil is largely made up of carbon and can therefore save huge amounts of CO2.

• 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.

Indonesia is currently the third largest carbon emitter in the world; according to the World Bank this is primarily because of clearing forests on peat soils (often through burning) for agriculture.

APRIL has been targeted by Greenpeace over conversion of rainforest to plantations: APRIL had been planning to convert rainforest in the Kampar Peninsula of Sumatra, storing an estimated 2 billion tons of carbon in the vegetation and peat soils, into acacia plantations for use in paper production.

There are ways to grow oil palms in sustainable ways, but clearing large areas of forest growing on peat soils, further endangering wildlife (the orangutan being the most prominent example), and destroying biodiversity in general is not the way to do it.

Good that this loophole's been closed: As Wetlands International reports agricultural plantations on peat soils — those in Southeast Asia for palm oil or other industrial agriculture

«Up to 66 % of all climate - change emissions from oil palm plantations is estimated to come from the 17 % of plantations established on peat soils,» says the WWF.