Peatlands: It can store more carbon than all the rainforests of the World Most people attribute rainforests as the biggest natural carbon sink.B...
Published on by Mrinmoy Majumder, Associate Professor at National Institute of Technology Agartala
Most people attribute rainforests as the biggest natural carbon sink.
But there’s another equally important, often overlooked type of natural carbon sink which is known as peatlands.
“Peatland is a terrestrial wetland ecosystem in which the production of organic matter exceeds its decomposition and a net accumulation of peat results.”..Click here to read more about Peatland.
These peatlands can conserve biodiversity, purify water and reduce flooding and soil erosion, good for planting certain crops, such as potatoes and carrots.
During the mapping of global peatlands, it can be found that there is more data for the northern hemisphere compared to the southern hemisphere and the tropics. High-quality peatland extent data are only available for a small selection of countries and regions, including Canada, Sweden, and West Siberia.
During the doctoral study conducted by M.Lourenco the author was successful in identifying the huge peatland area in Angola which can attribute to a large amount of carbon sequestration as well as producing purified water which i
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