Publications by authors named "Rafael Ziegler"
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- Peatlands are key ecosystems for carbon storage, but their drainage for agriculture and forestry leads to significant environmental issues like carbon emissions and biodiversity loss.
- To address these challenges and meet global climate goals, rewetting and restoring drained peatlands is essential, yet socio-economic and hydrological barriers hinder large-scale efforts.
- The proposal for integrated wetscapes aims to combine nature preserves and productive wet areas, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional drainage-based land use while promoting ecological and economic benefits.
Wetland buffer zones (WBZs) are riparian areas that form a transition between terrestrial and aquatic environments and are well-known to remove agricultural water pollutants such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). This review attempts to merge and compare data on the nutrient load, nutrient loss and nutrient removal and/or retention from multiple studies of various WBZs termed as riparian mineral soil wetlands, groundwater-charged peatlands (i.e.
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