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Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Peat Swamps

  • Hoekman D
Springer Netherlands, (2016), 1-10
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_306-1
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Abstract

Deposits of peat underneath peat swamp forests are among the world's largest reservoirs of carbon. Although tropical peatlands occupy only about 0.3 % of the global land surface, they could contain as much as 20 % of the global soil carbon stock, representing 63--148 Gt of carbon.

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Hoekman, D. (2016). Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Peat Swamps. In The Wetland Book (pp. 1–10). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_306-1

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