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Articles | Volume 22, issue 20
Articles | Volume 22, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6057-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6057-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 20
Ideas and perspectives
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24 Oct 2025
Ideas and perspectives |  | 24 Oct 2025

Ideas and Perspectives: Potentially large but highly uncertain carbon dioxide emissions resulting from peat erosion

Thomas C. Parker, Chris Evans, Martin G. Evans, Miriam Glendell, Richard Grayson, Joseph Holden, Changjia Li, Pengfei Li, and Rebekka R. E. Artz

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Many peatlands around the world are eroding and causing carbon losses to the atmosphere and to freshwater systems. To accurately report emissions from peatlands we need to understand how much of the eroded peat is converted to CO2 once exposed to the atmosphere. We need more direct measurements of this process and a better understanding of the environmental conditions that peat is exposed to after it erodes. This information will help quantify the emissions savings from peatland restoration.
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