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Data description paper
| 
19 Dec 2025
Data description paper |
| 19 Dec 2025
| 19 Dec 2025
Peat-DBase v.1: a compiled database of global peat depth measurements
Jade Skye
Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria BC, Canada
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria BC, Canada
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Colin Goldblatt
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Louis Saumier
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Angela Gallego-Sala
Department of Geography, Faculty of Economy, Science and the Environment, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Michelle Garneau
Department of geography and Geotop research center, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
R. Scott Winton
Environmental Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
Erick B. Bahati
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, DR Congo
Centre de recherche en écologie et gestion des écosystèmes terrestres, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Juan C. Benavides
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Lee Fedorchuk
Peatlands Program, Forestry and Peatlands Branch, Goverment of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Gérard Imani
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, DR Congo
Carol Kagaba Kairumba
Ministry of Water and Environment, Kampala, Uganda
Frank Kansiime
Department of Environmental Management, University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
Michel Mbasi
Laboratory of Ecology and Sustainable Forest Management, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Daria Wochal
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
Sambor Czerwiński
Department of Geomorphology and Quarternary Geology, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk 81-378, Poland
Jacek Landowski
Szkoła Podstawowa nr 44 im. Obrońców Wybrzeża w Gdyni, Gdynia, Poland
Joanna Landowska
XIV Liceum Ogólnokształcące z Oddziałami Dwujęzycznymi im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Gdyni, Gdynia, Poland
Vincent Maire
Département des sciences de l'environnement, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada
Minna M. Väliranta
Environmental Change Research Unit, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Matthew Warren
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
Lydia E. S. Cole
School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland
Marissa A. Davies
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Erik A. Lilleskov
Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, USA
Jingjing Sun
State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
Yuwan Wang
Department of Geography, Faculty of Economy, Science and the Environment, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
School of the Environment, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Short summary
Peatlands are large stores of carbon but are vulnerable to human activities and climate change. Comprehensive peatland data are vital to understand these ecosystems, but existing datasets are fragmented and contain errors. To address this, we created Peat-DBase – a standardized global database of peat depth measurements with > 200 000 measurements worldwide, showing median depths of 130 cm. Peat-DBase avoids overlapping data compilation efforts while identifying critical observational gaps.
Peatlands are large stores of carbon but are vulnerable to human activities and climate change....
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