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Peatlands as prolific carbon sinks

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Northern peatlands store over 1,000 Gt of carbon, almost double previous estimates, according to a new analysis of peat core data. The fate of this peat carbon, however, is uncertain in a rapidly changing world.

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  1. Environmental Change Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Matthew J. Amesbury

  2. Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Matthew J. Amesbury & Angela Gallego-Sala

  3. Department of Geography, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Julie Loisel

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Amesbury, M.J., Gallego-Sala, A. & Loisel, J. Peatlands as prolific carbon sinks. Nat. Geosci. 12, 880–881 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0455-y

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