Carbon storage capacity of tropical peatlands in natural and artificial drainage networks

• Main Authors: Cobb, Alexander R., Dommain, René, Tan, Fangyi, Heng, Naomi Hwee En, Harvey, Charles F.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Tropical Peatlands; Peatland Carbon Storage
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148371
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tropical peatlands store over 75 gigatons of carbon as organic matter that is protected from decomposition and fire by waterlogging if left undrained. Over millennia, this organic matter builds up between channels or rivers into gently mounded shapes called peat domes. Measurements of peat accumulat...