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

The landing page

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Rainfall trends

TRMM satellite data

Moisture trends

MODIS satellite data

(soil reflection calibrated with ground moisture)

Trend relation between

rainfall and soil moisture

2001-2016

250m

Monitoring degradation – a new method

Trends in soil moisture

Degradation

Restoration

Secondary PSF

Shrubs

Verifying degraded peatland landscape

Water regime monitoring

Water table and distance from canal

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