Dr Dylan Young’s research aims to understand how autogenic processes and external drivers such as climate and land use affect peatland carbon accumulation. He develops and works with ecosystem models to explore the responses of different types of peatland to these forcings in the past, present and future. His recent focus has been to simulate how Congo Basin peatlands responded to environmental and land-use change from ~20,000 years before present to 2100 CE.
He is also currently involved in modelling the effect of water management on European lowland agricultural peatlands.