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Book SynopsisThe Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF) in Minnesota serves as a living laboratory and provides scientists with a fundamental understanding of peatland hydrology, acid rain impacts, nutrient and carbon cycling, trace gas emissions, and controls on mercury transport in boreal watersheds. Its important role in scientific research continues to grow as the data gathered offers invaluable insight into environmental changes over the last century and goes far in answering many of today's pressing questions at landscape and global scales.
Synthesizing five decades of research, Peatland Biogeochemistry and Watershed Hydrology at the Marcell Experimental Forest includes hundreds of research publications, dozens of graduate theses, and even some previously unpublished studies. Research at the MEF has been at the forefront of many scientific disciplines and these 15 chapters offer the depth and breadth of long-term studies on hydrology, biogeochemistry, ecology, and
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"This book should be read—and frequently returned to—by everyone with interests in either peatland or forest processes (or in both). It is perhaps on the expensive side for undergraduate purchase and, therefore, also a ‘must’ acquisition for libraries supporting peatland courses."—Olivia Bragg, Mires and Peat, Book Review 2013.02, February 2013
Table of ContentsHistory, philosophy, and legacy of the Marcell Experimental Forest. Importance of Long-term Monitoring at the Marcell Experimental Forest . Geology, Paleo Botany, Paleo Climate, and Paleo Hydrology. Physical and Chemical Properties of Organic and Mineral Soils. Scaling up Evapotranspiration Estimates: Process Studies to Watersheds. \Watershed Hydrology: The Hydrologic Function of Uplands and Peatlands. Nutrient Cycling in Upland/peatland Watersheds. Carbon Pools in Uplands and Peatlands. Carbon Emissions from Peatlands. Mercury Cycling in Peatland Soils and Watersheds. Forest Management Practices and Silviculture. Hydrologic Responses to Forest Cover Changes on Uplands and Peatlands. Affects of Forest Cover and Environmental Change on Water Chemistry. Models for Predicting Hydrologic Response of Peatland and Upland Forested Watersheds to Management and Climate Change.
