Organic soils are defined in Chapter 3 Annex 3A.5 of Volume 4 of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines and Section 5, Chapter 1, section 5 of this Wetlands Supplement. The guidance in this Chapter applies to all inland organic soils
that have been drained, i.e., drainage of lands that started in the past and...
Drösler, M.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Pan G
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Freibauer, A.
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Evans, C.D.
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Bourbonniere RA
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Alm JP
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Page S
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Agus, F.
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Sabiham S
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Wang C
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Srivastava N
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Borgeau-Chavez L
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Couwenberg, J.
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Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Hooijer, A.
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Jauhiainen, J.
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Minkkinen K
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French N
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Strand, T.
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Sirin A
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Mickler R
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Tansey K
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Larkin N
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[Drained Inland Organic Soils]
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Drained Inland Organic Soils
Tropical peatlands are among the largest pedologic pools of organic carbon. This study compared soil CO2 fluxes in an intact peat swamp forest, a transitional logged drained forest and an oil palm plantation located on the same alluvial peat plain (peat dome) in Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia. Dynamic...
Comeau L
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Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Smith, J.U.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Conversion of intact peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation: effects on soil CO2 fluxes in Jambi, Sumatra]
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Conversion of intact peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation: effects on soil CO2 fluxes in Jambi, Sumatra
Developing countries participating in the mitigation mechanism of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), need to determine a national forest reference emission le...
Romijn E
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Ainembabazi, John H.
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Wijaya, A.
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Herold, Martin
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Angelsen, A.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Murdiyarso, Daniel
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[Exploring different forest definitions and their impact on developing REDD+ reference emission levels: A case study for Indonesia]
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Exploring different forest definitions and their impact on developing REDD+ reference emission levels: A case study for Indonesia
Currently, 25% of all deforestation in insular Southeast Asia occurs in peat swamp forests. When peatlands are deforested, drainage ditches are often constructed to lower the ground-water level, which may result in changes in peat methane (CH4) fluxes. Our aim was to evaluate how tropical peat sw...
Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Changes in soil CH4 fluxes from the conversion of tropical peat swamp forests: a meta-analysis]
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Changes in soil CH4 fluxes from the conversion of tropical peat swamp forests: a meta-analysis
Tropical peat swamp forests, which are predominantly located in Southeast Asia (SEA) and play a prominent role as a global carbon store, are being intensively degraded and converted to agricultural lands and tree plantations. For national inventories, updated estimates of peat emissions of greenh...
Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Greenhouse gas emission factors for land use and land-use change in Southeast Asian peatlands]
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Greenhouse gas emission factors for land use and land-use change in Southeast Asian peatlands
We test the applicability of two different methods for quantifying carbon (C) stocks in five tropical peat sites in Sumatra, Indonesia; two in an intact peat swamp forest, one in a logged forest and two in an oil palm plantation. Elemental analysis is used to quantify C contents and stocks in all...
Farmer J
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Matthews R
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Smith, Pete
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Langan C
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Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Smith, J.U.
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[Comparison of methods for quantifying soil carbon in tropical peats]
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Comparison of methods for quantifying soil carbon in tropical peats
Small-scale spatial variability in soil carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes poses serious challenges to the experimental design, and number of gas samples needed to provide a reliable estimate of flux usually exceeds analytical capacities. We pooled gas samples –analogously to soi...
Arias-Navarro, Cristina
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Díaz Pinés, Eugenio
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Kiese, Ralf
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Stern, D.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Gas pooling: a sampling technique to overcome spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide fluxes]
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Gas pooling: a sampling technique to overcome spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide fluxes
Agriculture, and consequently food security and livelihoods, is already being affected by climate change, according to latest science from the IPCC. The various strands of work already underway on agriculture within the UNFCCC process can be strengthened and made more coherent. A 2015 climate agr...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Wamukoya, George
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Kinyangi, James
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Wollenberg, L.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Minang, Peter A.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Vidal, Alain
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Hedger, Merylyn
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[The Role of Agriculture in the UN Climate Talks]
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The Role of Agriculture in the UN Climate Talks
Fernandes, K.
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Giannini, A.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Baethgen, Walter E.
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Pinedo-Vasquez, M.
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[Decadal co-variability of Atlantic SSTs and western Amazon dry-season hydroclimate in observations and CMIP5 simulations]
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Decadal co-variability of Atlantic SSTs and western Amazon dry-season hydroclimate in observations and CMIP5 simulations