It is unclear to what extent emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) from drained histosols in the tropics may contribute to the atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases. In particular, there is a critical need to elucidate their magnitude in oil palm plantations on these soils. We examined spatio-tempora...
Oktarita, Satria
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Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Anwar, Syaiful
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Substantial N2O emissions from peat decomposition and N fertilization in an oil palm plantation exacerbated by hotspots]
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Substantial N2O emissions from peat decomposition and N fertilization in an oil palm plantation exacerbated by hotspots
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
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
Increasing demand for food and fibre by the growing human population is driving significant land use (LU) change from forest into intensively managed land systems in tropical areas. But empirical evidence on the extent to which such changes affect the soil-atmosphere exchange of trace gases is st...
Arias-Navarro, Cristina
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Díaz Pinés, Eugenio
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Zuazo, Pablo
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Quantifying the contribution of land use to N2O, NO and CO2 fluxes in a montane forest ecosystem of Kenya]
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Quantifying the contribution of land use to N2O, NO and CO2 fluxes in a montane forest ecosystem of Kenya
Tropical peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon exhibit high densities of Mauritia flexuosa palms, which are often cut instead of being climbed for collecting their fruits. This is an important type of forest degradation in the region that could lead to changes in the structure and composition of the f...
Lent, Jeffrey van
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Hergoualc’h, Kristell
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Oenema, Oene
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Groenigen, Jan Willem van
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[Greenhouse gas emissions along a peat swamp forest degradation gradient in the Peruvian Amazon: soil moisture and palm roots effects]
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Greenhouse gas emissions along a peat swamp forest degradation gradient in the Peruvian Amazon: soil moisture and palm roots effects
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