Why care about peatlands?: Detecting degraded peatlands for landscape restoration
Daniel Murdiyarso
Rosa Roman-Cuesta
Thomas Gumbricht
Global wetlands map Area Volume Depth
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Gumbricht et al. 2017. GCB
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Monitoring degradation – a new method
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