Peatlands are wetland ecosystems that store more carbon than any other natural habitat. By removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and trapping carbon from dead organic matter in waterlogged condi...

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colo...

Widespread carbon-dense peatlands in the Colombian lowlands, Winton, R Scott, Benavides, Juan C, Mendoza, Edmundo, Uhde, Antje, Hastie, Adam, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N, Hernandez Ortega, Andres Giovanny, Paukku, Stella, Mullins, Bailey, del Aguila Pasquel, Jhon, Aymard-Corredor, Gerardo A, Baker, Tim R, Draper, Freddie C, Flores Llampazo, Gerardo, Herrera, Rafael, Phillips, Oliver L, Reyna Huaymacari, José Manuel, ter Steege, Hans, Stropp, Juliana, Lawson, Ian T, Gallego-Sala, Angela V, Boom, Arnoud, Wehrli, Bernhard, Hoyt, Alison M

We mapped between 7,371 and 36,238 km2 of peat in the Eastern Colombian lowlands at a 95% confidence interval The mapped peatland extent translates to 0.6–4.22 Pg of below-ground carbon stocks in...