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Healthy European Peatlands Require Specific Temperature and Water Level Parameters
EUROPE, JUL 23 – Research shows peat accumulates fastest at a water table about 10 cm below surface and warm summers, aiding carbon storage in European peatlands containing half of the continent's soil carbon.
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perspectivemedia.comWarmer summers ‘could boost growth rates in European peatlands’ – research finds
Peatlands, which play a key role in absorbing pollution, have been damaged in human activities.
Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters
Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, according to a study published in PLOS One by Graeme Swindles of Queen's University Belfast, U.K. and colleagues.
Why warmer summers will be great... for peat’s sake
Warmer summers could help boost growth rates in European peatlands and aid Ireland reaching its climate targets, research has found. Ireland is trying to encourage more peatland growth to trap vast amounts of carbon. Peatlands contain approximately five times more carbon than their forests. However, European peatlands have been damaged by pollution, draining and climate change. Professor Graeme Swindles, from the School of Natural and Built Envi…
Warm summers help bogs - but only if the water is high enough. As a new study with Swiss participation shows, European bogs store carbon most effectively when the water level is about ten centimetres below the surface. This is shown by the study of drill cores from 28 bogs across Europe, which date back up to 2,000 years. Heat also promotes the growth of the plants in bogs, especially in summer, when the growing season is.
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