A clue comes from the fact that most of the carbon in peat bogs ends up in the form of peat, an accumulation of dead sphagnum moss.
We argue that all wetland classes have the potential to store considerable carbon in the form of peat, so our carbon values represent the upper range of wetland peat carbon stock for the region.
Peat may be cut by spade in the form of blocks, which are spread out to dry.
Over the millennia, peatlands have sequestered and stored carbon in the form of peat, that today accounts for around 30% of the global soil organic carbon.
"They can't expand horizontally, so as sea level rises, they grow on top of themselves and the soil accumulates carbon in the form of peat below them".
The moors had been used as a source for domestic fuel, in the form of peat, since at least the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and probably as early as the Roman or pre-Roman periods.
Students investigated the interaction between people and the moorlands, and their overall effect on climate change, to discover whether the moorlands are a net carbon sink or source, based on the fact that upland areas of Britain are a significant global carbon store in the form of peat.
Evidence of the history washes up on the beach in the form of lumps of compressed peat.
What evidence does survive is usually in the form of artefacts recovered from peat bogs.
In the casing layer, which is a mixture of peat and lime, it is likely that the detected glucose and mannose at least partially drive from the mycelial cell wall, in the form of glucans and mannoproteins, respectively.
