The upcoming global mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries should include and prioritize tropical peatlands. Forested tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia are rapidly being converted into production systems by introducing perennial crop...
Murdiyarso, Daniel
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Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peatlands]
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Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peatlands
The increasing and alarming trend of degradation and deforestation of tropical peat swamp forests may contribute greatly to climate change. Estimates of carbon (C) losses associated with land use change in tropical peatlands are needed. To assess these losses we examined C stocks and peat C fluxe...
Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Stocks and fluxes of carbon associated with land use change in Southeast Asian tropical peatlands: a review]
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Stocks and fluxes of carbon associated with land use change in Southeast Asian tropical peatlands: a review
Peru has the fourth largest area of peatlands in the Tropics. Its most representative land cover on peat is a Mauritia flexuosa dominated palm swamp (thereafter called dense PS), which has been under human pressure over decades due to the high demand for the M. flexuosa fruit often collected by c...
Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Gutiérrez Vélez, Victor Hugo
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Menton, Mary
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Characterizing degradation of palm swamp peatlands from space and on the ground: An exploratory study in the Peruvian Amazon]
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Characterizing degradation of palm swamp peatlands from space and on the ground: An exploratory study in the Peruvian Amazon