Publications by authors named "Jonathan P Ritson"
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- Peatlands are important wetland areas that help store carbon and support various plants and animals, but they are being damaged by human activities.
- Scientists have made progress in restoring peatlands, but we still need to learn how tiny living things in the soil (microbes) help these ecosystems work and recover from problems.
- To improve peatland restoration, we need to study microbial communities better, create tools to monitor their health, and work with different experts to develop effective restoration practices.
Peatland ecosystem services include drinking water provision, flood mitigation, habitat provision and carbon sequestration. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal is a key treatment process for the supply of potable water downstream from peat-dominated catchments. A transition from peat-forming Sphagnum moss to vascular plants has been observed in peatlands degraded by (a) land management, (b) atmospheric deposition and (c) climate change.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUncertainty regarding changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) quantity and quality has created interest in managing peatlands for their ecosystem services such as drinking water provision. The evidence base for such interventions is, however, sometimes contradictory. We performed a laboratory climate manipulation using a factorial design on two dominant peatland vegetation types (Calluna vulgaris and Sphagnum Spp.
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