Talk:Peat swamp forest

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Untitled
The last line of the first section does not make sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.179.235.15 (talk • contribs)

Rewrite
We are rewriting the article on Peat Swamp Forests for a college project. Please see sandbox here 1 and add any relevant suggestions or commentary. Jboyar9 (talk) 20:07, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Confusing sentence requires clarification
Under the heading "Formation", the third sentence reads "Peat located on the fringing areas of domes of in between domes might form through lateral expansion." The use of "of" is confusing. Might the editor have meant "or"? Also, I presume that the following words are intended to be "in-between". If so, please note the proper use of the hyphen. Bricology (talk) 19:58, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Total land area of Indonesia is greatly overstated
Under the heading "In Indonesia: The problem", it states "Indonesia contains 50% of tropical peat swamps and 10% of dry land in the world" (emphasis mine). This is completely inaccurate. The total area of dry land in the world is 149 million square kilometers (57.5 million square miles). The total land area of Indonesia is 1.8 million square kilometers (700,000 square miles) -- equivalent to roughly 1.25% of the total land area; that's about 1/8th of the area that is claimed.Bricology (talk) 20:13, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It probably ought to read "10% of the world's dry-land tropical forests" or "10% of the world's tropical forests".Tom Radulovich (talk) 02:48, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Move article proposal - tropical peat swamp forest
I am reviewing this article with Drs Terhi Riutta and Caroline Signori-Muller as part of the WiR for Climate. They have highlighted that this article in its current form focusses on tropical peat swamp forests, despite the fact that not all peat swamp forests are found in the tropics.

As they say, "Swamps, or swamp forests are not limited to the tropics. A swamp is a mire with tall vegetation. Typically trees, but also e.g. Papyrus (papyrus swamp is a swamp, but not swamp forest). Many boreal peatlands are also swamps (e.g. Finland has spruce swamps). So should this article be given a new title 'Tropical peat swamp forest '? Or incorporated under a general tropical peatland article?"

Because so much of the existing content focusses on tropical peat swamp forests, I propose renaming the article "Tropical peat swamp forest" - most research seems to focus on the tropics too. I hope that someone might work on Boreal peat swamp forest as well in future. TatjanaClimate (talk) 09:02, 19 September 2023 (UTC)