Peatlands and Environmental Change

• Author(s): Dan Charman,
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 312
• ISBN_10: 0471969907
  ISBN_13: 9780471969907
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Earth Sciences / Geology ,

Description:... Due to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource, peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an important study area. Peatlands and Environmental Change offers a new approach by considering peatlands as a whole ecosystem, and thereby provides a better understanding of the importance and the consequences 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