Forests on drained agricultural peatland are potentially large sources of greenhouse gases – insights from a full rotation period simulation

• We conclude that after harvest at an age of 80 years, most of the stored biomass carbon is liable to be released, the system having captured C only temporarily and with a cost of disappeared peat, adding both CO2 and N2O to the atmosphere.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Forest

Peat soil

Greenhouse gases

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)