Lihini I. Aluwihare

Mar 8, 2024 | nature.com | Jennifer Bowen |Lihini I. Aluwihare |Gusti Z. Anshari

AbstractSoutheast Asian peatlands cover 0.2% of Earth’s land surface, but store one-tenth of all peat soil carbon globally. Recent deforestation and drainage have destabilized these carbon stores, increasing carbon inputs to aquatic and atmospheric reservoirs. Here we investigate the impact of anthropogenic disturbance on the aquatic fate of peat dissolved organic carbon (DOC) within networks of drainage canals overlying disturbed peatlands.