TroPeaCC publications, presentations and outreach activities

Mills MB, Malhi Y, Ewers RM, Kho LK, Teh YA, Both S, Burslem DFRP, Majalap N, Nilus R, Huaraca Huasco W, Cruz R, Pillco MM, Turner EC, Reynolds G, & Riutta T. 2023. Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(3), e2214462120.

Chadburn SE, Burke EJ, Gallego-Sala AV, Smith ND, Bret-Harte MS, Charman DJ, Drewer J, Edgar CW, Euskirchen ES, Fortuniak K, Gao Y. 2022. A new approach to simulate peat accumulation, degradation and stability in a global land surface scheme (JULES vn5. 8_accumulate_soil) for northern and temperate peatlands. Geoscientific Model Development 15(4):1633-57.

Presentations

Dehaen E et al. 2023. Modelling the tropical peatland carbon sink with JULES. Invited talk at the CongoPeat Project Meeting. University of Leicester. 30 March 2023

Dehaen E., Sun J. et al 2023. How to address the question “Is the global peatland carbon sink increasing or decreasing?”: Recent vs long-term carbon accumulation in peatlands. Keynote talk at the C-Peat 2023 meeting. Poznań, Poland and online. 9 May 2023

Riutta T. et al. 2023. Degradation as a carbon source, regrowth as a sink: Assessing the net impact and potential trajectories in Bornean logged forests. 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Coimbatore, India.

Dehaen E et al. 2022. Modelling the tropical peatland carbon sink. JULES Annual Science Meeting. Oxford. 15 September 2022

Gallego-Sala A. 2021. The role of peatlands as Nature-Based Solutions in achieving net zero. Invited talk at the Exeter and Tsinghua Workshop on ‘How to Achieve and Sustain Net Zero Emissions’. A joint workshop between the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University and the Global Systems Institute (GSI), University of Exeter. 16 November 2021.

Gallego-Sala A. 2021. Climate Change solutions: not just a bog-standard approach. Invited talk at Exeter College to high school students. 20 October 2021.

Gallego-Sala A. 2021. The role of peatlands in the global carbon cycle. Invited seminar at the 19^th Swiss Climate Summer School, Ascona, Switzerland. 2 September 2021.

Gallego-Sala, A. 2021. Global peatland carbon: challenges and opportunities. Invited seminar at the National University of Singapore. 5 March 2021.

Gallego-Sala A. 2021. Peatlands and the global carbon cycle. Invited seminar at Leicester University SGGE Research Seminar Series. 27 October 2020.

Gallego-Sala A. 2021. The fate of peatland carbon under climate change: what we don’t know. Invited seminar at Plymouth University Plymouth SoGEES Seminar Series. 21 January 2020.

Other outreach

Gallego-Sala A. 2023. Peatlands and Climate Change. Invited speaker. TEDx London 17^th October 2023. See also this link.