Blog: Forested peatlands and carbon – an overview
There are several definitions of peatland which depend on various distinguishing factors such as vegetation cover, land use, formation characteristics, hydrology, geochemistry, for example. Different countries apply different definitions as well, hence complicating mutual comparison. According to IPCC, wetlands include any land that is covered or saturated by water for at least part of the year (and that does not fall into the Forest Land, Cropland, or Grassland categories). Peat …