The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands

Autor: Nicholas T. Girkin, Paul J. Burgess, Lydia Cole, Hannah V. Cooper, Euridice Honorio Coronado, Scott J. Davidson, Jacqueline Hannam, Jim Harris, Ian Holman, Christopher S. McCloskey, Michelle M. McKeown, Alice M. Milner, Susan Page, Jo Smith, Dylan Young

Publikováno v: Carbon Management, Vol 14, Iss 1 (2023)

AbstractPeatlands are a globally important carbon store, but peatland ecosystems from high latitudes to the tropics are highly degraded due to increasingly intensive anthropogenic activity, making them significant greenhouse gas (GHG) sources. Peatla

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Identifying Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices for Tea Plantations

Autor: Rhys Rebello, Paul J. Burgess, Nicholas T. Girkin

Publikováno v: Nitrogen, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 43-57 (2022)

Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It is mostly grown in the tropics with a heavy dependence on mineral nitrogen (N) fertilisers to maintain high yields while minimising the areas under cultivation. However,

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Is Intercropping an Environmentally-Wise Alternative to Established Oil Palm Monoculture in Tropical Peatlands?

Autor: Selvakumar Dhandapani, Nicholas T. Girkin, Stephanie Evers, Karl Ritz, Sofie Sjögersten

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Vol 3 (2020)

Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia are important ecosystems that play a crucial role in global biogeochemical cycles, with a potential for strong climate feedback loops. The degradation of tropical peatlands due to the expansion of oil palm plantat

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Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data

Autor: Bart Crezee, Greta C. Dargie, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Ovide Emba B., Joseph Kanyama T., Pierre Bola, Jean-Bosco N. Ndjango, Nicholas T. Girkin, Yannick E. Bocko, Suspense A. Ifo, Wannes Hubau, Dirk Seidensticker, Rodrigue Batumike, Gérard Imani, Aida Cuní-Sanchez, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, Judicaël Lebamba, Hans-Peter Wotzka, Hollie Bean, Timothy R. Baker, Andy J. Baird, Arnoud Boom, Paul J. Morris, Susan E. Page, Ian T. Lawson, Simon L. Lewis

Publikováno v: Crezee, B, Dargie, G C, Ewango, C E N, Mitchard, E T A, Emba B., O, Kanyama T., J, Bola, P, Ndjango, J N, Girkin, N T, Bocko, Y E, Ifo, S A, Hubau, W, Seidensticker, D, Batumike, R, Imani, G, Cuní-sanchez, A, Kiahtipes, C A, Lebamba, J, Wotzka, H, Bean, H, Baker, T R, Baird, A J, Boom, A, Morris, P J, Page, S E, Lawson, I T & Lewis, S L 2022, ' Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data ', Nature Geoscience, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 639-+ . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00966-7

Funding: The work was funded by a NERC Large Grant to S.L.L. (‘CongoPeat’, NE/R016860/1), a NERC Doctoral Training Partnership award to B.C. (‘SPHERES DTP’, NE/L002574/1) and a Greenpeace Fund award to S.L.L. JAXA, NASA, METI, USGS, ESA, OSFA

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00966-7

Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin

Autor: Yannick Garcin, Enno Schefuß, Greta C. Dargie, Donna Hawthorne, Ian T. Lawson, David Sebag, George E. Biddulph, Bart Crezee, Yannick E. Bocko, Suspense A. Ifo, Y. Emmanuel Mampouya Wenina, Mackline Mbemba, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Ovide Emba, Pierre Bola, Joseph Kanyama Tabu, Genevieve Tyrrell, Dylan M. Young, Ghislain Gassier, Nicholas T. Girkin, Christopher H. Vane, Thierry Adatte, Andy J. Baird, Arnoud Boom, Pauline Gulliver, Paul J. Morris, Susan E. Page, Sofie Sjögersten, Simon L. Lewis

Publikováno v: Nature
Nature, 2022, 612, pp.277-282. ⟨10.1038/s41586-022-05389-3⟩

Funding: This work was funded by CongoPeat—a NERC large grant (NE/R016860/1) to S.L.L., I.T.L., S.E.P., A.B., A.J.B., P.J.M., P.G. and S.S. Natural Environment Research Council (CASE award to S.L.L. and G.C.D.), Leeds–York NERC Doctoral Training

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https://hal-ifp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03917957