Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2022)

Destabilization of carbon in tropical peatlands by enhanced weathering

  • Alexandra Klemme,
  • Tim Rixen,
  • Moritz Müller,
  • Justus Notholt,
  • Thorsten Warneke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00544-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Enhanced weathering in tropical peatlands may be an ineffective carbon dioxide removal strategy due to pH-induced increases in soil carbon leaching which lead to increased re-emission of carbon, according to model calculations constrained by observations from Sumatra, Indonesia.