期刊
AMBIO
卷 52, 期 9, 页码 1519-1528出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01875-8
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Carbon; Paludiculture; Restoration; Rewetting; Sustainable peatland use; Wetland
Although peatland drainage leads to carbon emissions, land subsidence, fires, and biodiversity loss, global drainage-based agriculture and forestry on peatland are still expanding. Rewetting and restoration of drained and degraded peatlands are urgently needed, but limitations in socio-economic conditions and hydrology hinder large-scale efforts, calling for a reevaluation of landscape use.
Peatlands are among the world's most carbon-dense ecosystems and hotspots of carbon storage. Although peatland drainage causes strong carbon emissions, land subsidence, fires and biodiversity loss, drainage-based agriculture and forestry on peatland is still expanding on a global scale. To maintain and restore their vital carbon sequestration and storage function and to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, rewetting and restoration of all drained and degraded peatlands is urgently required. However, socio-economic conditions and hydrological constraints hitherto prevent rewetting and restoration on large scale, which calls for rethinking landscape use. We here argue that creating integrated wetscapes (wet peatland landscapes), including nature preserve cores, buffer zones and paludiculture areas (for wet productive land use), will enable sustainable and complementary land-use functions on the landscape level. As such, transforming landscapes into wetscapes presents an inevitable, novel, ecologically and socio-economically sound alternative for drainage-based peatland use.
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