In Southeast Asia, 25 percent of deforestation occurs in peat swamp forests and is driven by wood production and a demand for land for agricultural production. Techniques that facilitate deforestation, such as drainage ditches which lower the groundwater level, may affect peat methane emission fluxes. A study by Kristell Hergoualc’h and Louis Verchot at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), with support from CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) examines the effects of tropical peat land conversion on the fluxes.
Original post by Manon Verchot.
