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Restoring Drained Peatlands: A Necessary Step to Achieve Global Climate Goals
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Peatlands cover about 400 million hectares (ha), or 3% of the land surface of our planet. Yet they store more carbon, more effectively and for longer periods, than any other ecosystem on land. Intact...
Reviewing and analyzing shrinkage of Peat and Other Organic Soils in Relation to Selected Soil Properties
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Peat and other organic soils (e.g., organo-mineral soils) show distinctive volume changes through desiccation and wetting. Important processes behind volume changes are shrinkage and swelling. There...
Swamplands as Untapped Climate Solutions: A Look to the Hudson Bay Lowlands
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December 16th, 2021 at 11:00am MST to December 16th, 2021 at 12:15pm MST
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Swamplands such as peatlands, bogs, fens, marshes, and swamps have been demonized and dismissed as dismal, unhealthy “wastelands,” with little ecological value. But these underappreciated ecosystems...