Authors:
Stephanie Evers , Paul Williams, Rory Padfield and Alexander Kiew Sayok
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
carbon-stores, drainage, landscapes, tropical-peatland
Documentfile:
ipc16p153a084everswilliams.etal_.pdf
Summary:
Tropical peatlands are globally significant carbon stores. To date, many studies have shown the impact of conversion of peat swamp forests (PSFs) into agriculture and the associated C emission from peat soils with clearance and drainage. Yet losses from fluvial carbon have so far received little attention. Fluvial C plays an important role as a transfer pathway of carbon between the terrestrial, freshwater and eventually marine C pools. However in addition to this, it forms a vector for mobilisation of micronutrients such as Iron (Fe) and other trace elements, between those same pools. Yet the heterogeneity of fluvial C concentrations in relation to land use type