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Peatland
The high significance of peatlands for species, habitat, landscape and climate protection is widely recognised throughout Europe today. In addition...
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The Inequity Implications of Peatland Conservation Policies
Implementation of conservation policies can result in negative impacts and exacerbate existing disparities, yet studies of these risks in peatland...
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The Dimension of Gender in Peatland Management in Rantau Baru Village
Although harnessing full community participation in natural resource management produces positive ecological and economic outcomes, the specific...
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Application of Palaeoecological and Geochemical Proxies in the Context of Tropical Peatland Degradation and Restoration: A Review for Southeast Asia
Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia (SEA) have undergone large-scale degradation in recent times due to extensive land use changes and drainage...
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Characteristics of Bird Community Response to Land Use Change in Tropical Peatland in Riau, Indonesia
Tropical peatlands have increasingly been targeted for logging or conversion to plantations in recent years. Tropical peatlands are unique ecosystems...
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Interplay of Climate, Fires, Floods, and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Peat Formation and Carbon Dynamic of Coastal and Inland Tropical Peatlands in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
The function of tropical peatland as a carbon sink is a balance between peat accumulation and peat loss; however, various interacting factors are...
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Responses of Four Peatland Emergent Macrophytes to Salinity and Short Salinity Pulses
Sea-level rise intensifies saltwater influx into coastal wetlands causing osmotic stress and probably changing vegetation composition. To determine...
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Selling Peatland for the Future: History, Land Management, and the Transformation of Common Land in Rantau Baru
Rantau Baru, an old fishing village on the bank of the Kampar River in Indonesia, is surrounded by peat hinterlands. The village territory has been...
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Long-Term Phosphorus Addition Strongly Weakens the Carbon Sink Function of a Temperate Peatland
Peatlands are important nutrient-limited, carbon (C)-accumulating ecosystems where phosphorus (P) is one major limiting nutrient. An increase in P...
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Coastal and Inland Salt Grassland
Not least, climate change and the associated rise in sea level have put coastal habitats on the agenda of international environmental policy. In...
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Diaspore bank experiment with the invasive moss Campylopus introflexus: Can peatland restoration suppress its germination?
The spontaneous recovery of the plant cover of extracted peatlands is a long-lasting process, and re-vegetation depends largely on species emerging...
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Rethinking the Local Wisdom Approach in Peatland Restoration through the Case of Rantau Baru: A Critical Inquiry to the Present-Day Concept of Kearifan Lokal
In recent years, studies have promoted the efficacy of “local wisdom” in contributing to the prevention of peatland degradation and its fires in...
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Variations in the archaeal community and associated methanogenesis in peat profiles of three typical peatland types in China
BackgroundPeatlands contain about 500 Pg of carbon worldwide and play a dual role as both a carbon sink and an important methane (CH 4 ) source,...
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Socio-spatial factors influence climate change adaptation decisions of rural coastal landowners
ContextSea level rise will have unprecedented impacts on rural coastal communities. Adaptation will be a critical strategy to reduce community...
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Response of fungal communities to fire in a subtropical peatland
PurposeWildfire, an increasing disturbance in peatlands, could dramatically change carbon stocks and reshape plant/microbial communities, with...
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Coastal Landscapes of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
The post-Pleistocene history of the German coasts is generally characterised by sea level rising, which was fast in the beginning and slower later....
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Establishing Agroforestry Conservation Buffer Zones to Protect Tropical Peatland Forests of Indonesia
Indonesia, as a tropical country in Southeast Asia, has a vast area of peatland forest threatened by deforestation and forest degradation. Peatland...
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Coastal Development: Resilience, Restoration and Infrastructure Requirements
More than 200 countries have a coastline, and this forms the basis for their claims to territorial waters and exclusive economic zones (EEZs)....
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A Hydrogeologic-Landscapes Framework for Depressional-Wetland Vegetation in the Southeastern Coastal Plain, USA
Numerous wetland depressions occur across the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain, a region of complex physiography spanning a landward-to-seaward elevation...
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Introduction: The Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands
Tropical peat swamp forests that started to experience fires in the 1960s in Sumatra and in the 1980s in Kalimantan are now seriously degraded in...