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Like marshes, peat bogs are an integral part of the landscape, especially in Northern latitudes. The UK and Ireland have 20% of the world's area apparently.
If peat bogs dissappeared the concentration of CO2 would increase by two thirds.
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If peat bogs dissappeared the concentration of CO2 would increase by two thirds.
Peat bogs and environmental change | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Peat bogs ‘tougher than we thought’ but may still be vulnerable to rapid or extreme environmental changePlant communities in European peat bogs are affected by environmental change, but their ecological functioning remains intact.If all peat bogs in the world were to disappear, the amount of CO2...