ABSTRACT
Peatland can be found throughout Australia from the wet tropics in the north to the temperate zone, the alpine regions in the south east to the coastal plains in the south west. However, the extent of peatland in Australia mainland is relatively small and receives little attention. The most studied peats in Australia are those found in Tasmania but there has been limited detailed mapping of peat formation in Tasmania, with field data scarce due to the access constraints inherent in the inhospitable south-west wilderness environments. Digital Soil Mapping of Organic Soil Carbon (SOC) throughout Tasmania has been done,and using 18% topsoil SOC content as a lower limit for peat soil, a map of peatland has been derived. Future work will improve the estimated coverage of carbon mapping and peat soils in Tasmania and Australia.
