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Nature 420, 61-65 (7 November 2002) | doi:10.1038/nature01131;

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The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997

Tropical peatlands are one of the largest near-surface reserves of terrestrial organic carbon, and hence their stability has important implications for climate change. In their natural state, lowland tropical peatlands support a luxuriant growth of peat swamp forest overlying peat deposits up to 20 metres thick.

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