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- Questions Answers: Bringing Clarity on Peatland Rewetting . . .
rewetting Without rewetting, drained peatlands eventually lose all their peat and will no longer be peatlands Peatland restoration should thus as a minimum aim at and result in the conservation of the peat Whereas rewetting of drained peatlands is necessary to stop their huge CO 2 emissions, rewetting does not necessarily bring the peatland
- Prompt rewetting of drained peatlands reduces climate warming . . .
Table 1 Global scenarios of peatland management Fig 1: Global warming and climatic effects of peatland management Table 2 Areas of drained peatland (kha) by climate zone and land use category
- Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old . . .
The Paris Agreement entails the rewetting of 500,000 km 2 of drained peatlands worldwide until 2050-2070 A better understanding of the resulting locally novel ecosystems is required to improve planning and implementation of peatland rewetting and subsequent management Subject terms: Ecosystem ecology, Plant ecology, Biogeochemistry
- Peatlands rewetting, restoration and conservation offers a . . .
Social impact The social impacts of peatland degradation include land loss from subsidence, fires and associated health impacts of air pollution and reduced water quality Land subsidence and flooding of degraded areas decreases agricultural productivity and puts lives at risk in coastal lowlands (Hooijer et al , 2012) Peatland
- Quantifying ecosystem services of rewetted peatlands − the . . .
The significance of particular peatland ecosystem services does not only depend on biophysical features, but also on their significance for society, at local, regional, and national levels For example, Evans et al (2014) identified three regulating services in a UK bog as having greatest value in this region (namely climate regulation, water
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