Drainage effects on carbon budgets of degraded peatlands in the north of the Netherlands

Peatlands store vast amounts of carbon (C). However, land-use-driven drainage causes peat oxidation, resulting in CO 2 emission. There is a growing need for ground-truthing CO 2 emission and its potential drivers to better quantify long-term emission trends in peatlands. This will help improve National Inventory Reporting and ultimately aid the design and verification of mitigation measures. To investigate regional drivers of CO 2 emission, we estimated C budgets using custom-made automated chamber systems measuring CO 2 concentrations corrected for carbon export and import. Chamber systems we... Mehr ...