Responsible agriculture must adapt to the wetland character of mid‐latitude peatlands

Drained, lowland agricultural peatlands are greenhouse gas (GHG) emission hotspots and a large but vulnerable store of irrecoverable carbon. They exhibit soil loss rates of ~2.0 cm yr−1 and are estimated to account for 32% of global cropland emissions while producing only 1.1% of crop kilocalories....

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Published in:	Global change biology Vol. 28; no. 12; pp. 3795 - 3811
Main Authors:	Freeman, Benjamin W. J., Evans, Chris D., Musarika, Samuel, Morrison, Ross, Newman, Thomas R., Page, Susan E., Wiggs, Giles F. S., Bell, Nicholle G. A., Styles, David, Wen, Yuan, Chadwick, David R., Jones, Davey L.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-06-2022 John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:	Agricultural land Agriculture carbon Carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide emissions Climate change Climate change mitigation Drainage Drainage systems Economics Emissions Emissions control Farm buildings Food security Global climate Greenhouse effect Greenhouse gases Groundwater table hydrology Land management Livelihoods Mitigation paludiculture Peatlands Private sector Restoration Review Reviews Soil erosion soil loss Water depth Water management Water table Water table depth Wetland agriculture Wetlands greenhouse gases paludiculture hydrology peatlands carbon climate change mitigation wetland agriculture soil loss
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