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PFG0076

Boreal Peatland Biogeochemistry

The course content covers:

- The peatland carbon balance and its feedbacks with the global climate system

- Sources, variations and drivers of individual peatland CO2 fluxes

- Methanogenesis, methane oxidation and methane emission pathways

- Peatland biogeochemistry

- The radiative forcing of peatlands at present and in the Holocene

- Peatland management impacts



The course will be reading-based using key literature on aspects related to the various topics. Weekly discussion meetings (as mandatory course element) will be held to further deepen the students’ understanding of the course reading material.



The weekly meetings will two-hourly with the first hour for the students to discuss on their own and the second hour together with a scholar. A final assignment including written report and oral presentation will create a reflective momentum and provide the basis for student evaluation.

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