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Due to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource,peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an importantstudy area. Peatlands and Environmental Change offers a newapproach by considering peatlands as a whole ecosystem, and therebyprovides a better understanding of the importance and theconsequences of the functioning of peatlands.

Contents include:






* Peat and peatlands
* Peat landforms and structure
* Peatland hydrology and ecology
* Origins and pest initiation
* Peat accumulation
* The peatland archive: palaeoenvironmental evidence
* Autogenic change
* Allogenic change
* Peatland - environmental feedbacks
* Values, exploitation and human impacts
* Conservation management and restoration

Peatlands and Environmental Change

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Due to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource,peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an importantstudy area. Peatlands and... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 27/03/2002
    ISBN13: 9780470844106, 978-0470844106
    ISBN10: 0470844108

    Number of Pages: 320

    Non Fiction , Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment , Education

    Description

    Due to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource,peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an importantstudy area. Peatlands and Environmental Change offers a newapproach by considering peatlands as a whole ecosystem, and therebyprovides a better understanding of the importance and theconsequences of the functioning of peatlands.

    Contents include:






    * Peat and peatlands
    * Peat landforms and structure
    * Peatland hydrology and ecology
    * Origins and pest initiation
    * Peat accumulation
    * The peatland archive: palaeoenvironmental evidence
    * Autogenic change
    * Allogenic change
    * Peatland - environmental feedbacks
    * Values, exploitation and human impacts
    * Conservation management and restoration

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