Lorna I. Harris

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define and quantify the leading drivers of change that have impacted peatland carbon stocks during the Holocene and predict their effect during this century and in the far future.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between vegetation composition, water table depth, and microtopography in ombrotrophic peatlands and found that plant distributions are more strongly related to WTD than to micro-topography, suggesting that the feedbacks among WTD, vegetation and micro topography could be dependent on location within a bog.

TL;DR: The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD) as discussed by the authors is a land cover dataset based on an expert assessment, extrapolated using random forest modelling from available spatial datasets of climate, vegetation, wetlands, and surface water extents and dynamics.

TL;DR: Patterns of phylogenetic diversity and distribution can be explained by the history of Holarctic Sphagnum peatland range expansions and contractions in response to Quaternary glaciations that promoted cladogenetic range evolution, rather than the contemporary distribution of suitable habitats.

TL;DR: The relative importance of global versus local environmental factors for growth and thus carbon uptake of the bryophyte genus Sphagnum is discussed in this paper, where the main peat-former and ecosystem engineer in northern peatlan is discussed.