Nicholas Kettridge

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed synthesis of autogenic hydrological feedbacks that operate within northern peatlands to regulate their response to changes in seasonal water deficit and varying disturbances is provided.

TL;DR: It is shown that the moderate drop in water table position predicted for most northern regions triggers a shift in vegetation composition previously observed within only severely disturbed tropical peatlands, which converted the low productivity, moss-dominated peatland to a non-carbon accumulating shrub-grass ecosystem.

TL;DR: The first International Peat Congress (IPC) held in the tropics - in Kuching (Malaysia) - brought together over 1000 international peatland scientists and industrial partners from across the world.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors simulated spatial variations in radiation, turbulent energy fluxes, and temperatures in peatlands with real and idealized tree densities and distributions, and found that the tradeoff between reduced evaporation and increased transpiration with increasing tree density reduced landscape variation in evapotranspiration, with simulated evapOTranspiration remaining approximately constant across a broad range of peatland ecosystems despite varying canopy densities.

TL;DR: The complex interactions and trade-offs in peatland fire management are explored, evaluating the benefits and costs of managed fire as they are currently understood and highlighting the need for an informed, unbiased debate on fire as an ecological management tool separated from other aspects of moorland management and from political and economic opinions.