Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
Alice M. Milner, Crystal A. E. Ahiable & Dylan J. S. Oliver
Department of Geography, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Michelle M. McKeown
Biology, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Monika Ruwaimana
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Angela Gallego-Sala, Thomas P. Roland, Josephine N. Handley & Caroline Signori-Müller
Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Julie Loisel
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Johanna Menges
Conservation International, Nairobi, Kenya
Leonard O. Akwany
School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Paola Alarcon-Prado & Richard D. Pancost
Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, Indonesia
Gusti Anshari
Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Christ College Autonomous, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India
Linto Alappat
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Andy J. Baird, Simon L. Lewis & Dylan M. Young
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Mariusz Bąk, Mariusz Lamentowicz & Katarzyna Marcisz
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jean Jacques Bambuta Boole
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
Stephanie E. Batten
Alinea International, Gatineau, Canada
Yannick Beaudoin
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Michel Bechtold
Institute for Peat and Mire Research, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
Zhao-Jun Bu
Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Jakarta, Indonesia
Sri Parwati Murwani Budisusanti
Department of Ecology and Territory, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
Juan C. Benavides
Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Sakonvan Chawchai
College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA
Rodney A. Chimner
Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Alexander R. Cobb
School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Lydia E. S. Cole
Geography, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
John Connolly
Ministerio del Ambiente, Magdalena del Mar, Peru
Janet Coral Calvo Vargas
Knowledge Core GmbH, Basel, Switzerland
Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi
York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, Department of Geography and Environment, University of York, York, UK
Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi
Geoecology, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi
Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Scott J. Davidson
Department of Ecological, Plant and Animal Sciences, La Trobe University, Albury/Wodonga, Australia
Scott J. Davidson
Por El Mar, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Angeles de la Peña
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Emma Duley
Michael Succow Foundation (Partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre), Greifswald, Germany
Samer Elshehawi
Rewilding Chile, Region de Los Lagos, Chile
Ingrid Espinoza León
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Sarah A. Finkelstein
Département de Géographie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Michelle Garneau
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Nicholas T. Girkin
Land & Carbon Lab, World Resources Institute, Washington, USA
Erin Glen & Fred Stolle
Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Samantha Grover
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Regulatory, Compliance and Sector Monitoring, Pretoria, South Africa
Piet-Louis Grundling
Centre for Environment Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Piet-Louis Grundling
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Josephine N. Handley
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh, UK
Carole Helfter
Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia
Kristell Hergoualc’h
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Alison M. Hoyt
State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Xianyu Huang
Biology Department, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gerard Imani & Chantal Kabonyi Nzabandora
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Division of Geography and Tourism, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Alexander James & Gert Verstraeten
Ministry of Water and Environment, Kampala, Uganda
Carol Kagaba Kairumba
Department of Environmental Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Frank Kansiime
USDA Forest Service, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Grand Rapids, USA
Randall K. Kolka
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Gerbrand Koren
Environmental Change Research Unit, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Atte Korhola & Minna Väliranta
Ministry of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Haruni Krisnawati
Wetlands International South Asia, New Delhi, India
Ritesh Kumar
Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jokioinen, Finland
Kristiina Lång & Tuula Larmola
Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
Simon L. Lewis
Inter-American Institute for Global Change, Ancón, Panama
Omar R. Lopez
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Panama
Omar R. Lopez
Department of Ecoscience, Arctic Research Center, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
Efrén López-Blanco
Geography Department, National University Of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Massimo Lupascu
Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru
Mónica Maldonado-Fonken
York Institute of Tropical Ecosystems, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
Robert Marchant
Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Robert Marchant
Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Natalia G. Mazei
Department of General Ecology and Hydrobiology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Yuri A. Mazei
Laboratoire d’Ecologie et Aménagement Forestier Durable (LECAFOR), University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Michel Mbasi
Institut Supérieur d’Etudes Agronomiques de Bengamisa (ISEA-Bengamisa), Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Michel Mbasi
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Asia Headquarters, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia
Lulie Melling
UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
Lera Miles
JRC European Commission, Ispra, Italy
Luca Montanarella
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Patrick T. Moss
School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
Patrick T. Moss
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico
Fabiola Murgía-Flores
Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Minh-Ky NGuyen
Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara, Jakarta, Indonesia
Nisa Novita
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie
Human Palaeosystems Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie
Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Mitsuru Osaki
Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Susan E. Page
Quaternary Palynology Division, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
Shilpa Pandey
Wildlife Conservation Society, Santiago, Chile
Nichole Püschel Hoeneisen & Bárbara Saavedra
Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Christian H. Quintana Zagaceta
Department of Applied Earth Sciences, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka
Amila S. Ratnayake
Department of Rural Economies, Environment & Society, Scotland’s Rural College, Edinburgh, UK
Mark S. Reed
Department of Plant Sciences, Peatland Ecology Research Group and Centre for Northern Studies, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Line Rochefort
International Forestry Students’ Association, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Japheth Samuel
Global Peatlands Initiative, Biodiversity, People and Landscapes Unit, Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Patrick Scheel
Jacobs, Peterborough, UK
Hans Schutten
GeoBio Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Florian Siegert
Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, Munich, Germany
Florian Siegert
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Maria Strack
Geography, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Graeme T. Swindles
Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany
Franziska Tanneberger
Greifswald Mire Centre, Greifswald, Germany
Franziska Tanneberger
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Merritt R. Turetsky
Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Argentina
Adriana B. Urciuolo
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
Matthew Warren
Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada
Kara L. Webster
School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Jennie Whinam
School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
Zicheng Yu
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
Zicheng Yu
State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Hui Zhang
Alice Milner conceived the idea, led the project and the manuscript writing. Alice Milner, Michelle McKeown, Monika Ruwaimana, Angela Gallego-Sala and Julie Loisel formed the core project team designing the survey, conducting the analysis, writing and editing the manuscript. Johanna Menges contributed to analysis. Thomas Roland produced the figures and contributed to analysis. All additional authors are listed alphabetically in the author list. Paola Alarcon-Prado, Gusti Anshari, Linto Alappat, Juan Benavides, Sakonvan Chawchai, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie, Sarah Finklestein, Michelle Garneau, Nicholas Girkin, Josephine Handley, Carole Helfter, Xianyu Huang, Gerard Imani, Chantal Kabonyi Nzabandora, Carol Kagaba Kairumba, Frank Kansiime, Atte Korhola, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Omar Lopez, Massimo Lupascu, Robert Marchant, Katarzyna Marcisz, Natalia Mazei, Yuri Mazei, Michel Mbasi, Lulie Melling, Patrick Moss, Fabiola Murgía-Flores, Minh-Ky Nguyen, Nisa Novita, Richard Pancost, Christian Quintana Zagaceta, Caroline Signori-Müller, Graeme Swindles, Minna Väliranta and Hui Zhang acted as translators and key contacts for the community survey. Leonard Akwany, Jean Jacques Bambuta Boole, Yannick Beaudoin, Zhao-Jun Bu, Sri Parwati Murwani Budisusanti, Rodney Chimner, John Connolly, Janet Coral Calvo Vargas, Angeles de la Peña, Samer Elshehawi, Ingrid Espinoza León, Erin Glen, Samantha Grover, Piet-Louis Grundling, Kristell Hergoualc’h, Randall Kolka, Haruni Krisnawati, Ritesh Kumar, Kristiina Lång, Tuula Larmola, Simon Lewis, Mónica Maldonado-Fonken, Lera Miles, Luca Montanarella, Mitsuru Osaki, Susan Page, Nichole Püschel Hoeneisen, Line Rochefort, Bárbara Saavedra, Japheth Samuel, Patrick Scheel, Hans Schutten, Florian Siegert, Maria Strack, Fred Stolle, Franziska Tanneberger, Merritt Turetsky, Adriana Urciuolo, Matthew Warren, Kara Webster, Jennie Whinam and Zicheng Yu were selected by the Global Peatland Initiative to prioritise the questions. Crystal Ahiable, Mariusz Bąk, Stephanie Batten, Michel Bechtold, Alexander Cobb, Scott Davidson, Emma Duley, Alexander James, Gerbrand Koren, Efrén López-Blanco, Dylan Oliver and Dylan Young supported the data analysis. All co-authors commented on the manuscript.