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Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy : paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands
TANNEBERGER, Franziska
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COUWENBERG, John
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LUTHARDT, Vera
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et al.
2022
Peatlands in the European Union are largely drained for agriculture and emit 25% of the total agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Drainage-based peatland use has also negative impacts on water quality, drinking water provision and biodiversity.
Consequently, key EU environmental policy objectives include the rewetting of all drained peatlands as an essential nature-based solution. Rewetting of peatlands can be combined with site-adapted land use, so-called paludiculture. Paludiculture produces biomass from wet and rewetted peatlands under conditions that maintain the peat body, facilitate peat accumulation and can provide many of the ecosystem services associated with natural, undrained...
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