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The Biology Of Peatlands 2e
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Author : Håkan Rydin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-18
The Biology Of Peatlands 2e written by Håkan Rydin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Nature categories.
This book provides a comprehensive and up to date overview of peatland ecosystems. It examines the entire range of biota present in this habitat and considers management, conservation, and restoration issues.
Peatlands And Climate Change
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Author : Maria Strack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Peatlands And Climate Change written by Maria Strack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bog ecology categories.
The International Peat Society IPS established a joint IPS Working Group on Peatlands and Climate Change in the end of the year 2005. The Working Group's task was to compile information into a summary of available knowledge to help the IPS and other actors to understand the role of peatlands and peat within the current context of global climate change.
Peatland Restoration And Ecosystem Services
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Author : Aletta Bonn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-23
Peatland Restoration And Ecosystem Services written by Aletta Bonn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with Nature categories.
An interdisciplinary book tackling the challenges of managing peatlands and their ecosystem services in the face of climate change.
The Biology Of Peatlands
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Author : Hakan Rydin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-06-08
The Biology Of Peatlands written by Hakan Rydin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-08 with Art categories.
There is a growing awareness that peatlands are a key component of the global carbon cycle due to their role as an important carbon sink. However, many ecologists and conservation biologists lack a general understanding of peatlands despite the fact that they are also often repositories for rare species and, in many regions, represent the last remnants of natural vegetation. This book provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to peatland ecology. As with other books in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in this book will be on the organisms that dominate peatland habitats although their management, conservation and restoration will also be considered.
Peatlands
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Author : Ian D. Rotherham
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-28
Peatlands written by Ian D. Rotherham and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with Nature categories.
This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts. Peat is formed when vegetation partially decays in a waterlogged environment and occurs extensively throughout both temperate and tropical regions. Interest in peatlands is currently high due to the degradation of global peatlands which is disrupting hydrology and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. This book opens by explaining how peat is formed, its properties and worldwide distribution, and defines related terms such as mires, wetlands, bogs and marshes. There is discussion of the ecology and wildlife of peatlands as well as their ability to preserve pollen and organic remains as environmental archives. It also addresses the history, heritage and cultural exploitation of peat, extending back to pre-Roman times, and the degradation of peatlands over the centuries, particularly as a source of fuel but more recently for commercial horticulture. Other chapters discuss the ecosystem services delivered by peatlands, and how their destruction is contributing to biodiversity loss, flooding or drought, and climate change. Finally, the many current peatland restoration projects around the world are highlighted. Overall the book provides a wide-ranging but concise overview of peatlands from both a natural and social science perspective, and will be invaluable for students of ecology, geography, environmental studies and history.
Peatlands
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Author : I.P. Martini
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2007-03-28
Peatlands written by I.P. Martini and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-28 with Law categories.
'In the past two decades there has been considerable work on global climatic change and its effect on the ecosphere, as well as on local and global environmental changes triggered by human activities. From the tropics to the Arctic, peatlands have developed under various geological conditions, and they provide good records of global and local changes since the Late Pleistocene. The objectives of the book are to analyze topics such as geological evolution of major peatlands basins; peatlands as self sustaining ecosystems; chemical environment of peatlands: water and peat chemistry; peatlands as archives of environmental changes; influence of peatlands on atmosphere: circular complex interactions; remote sensing studies of peatlands; peatlands as a resource; peatlands degradation, restoration, plus more.' * Presents an interdisciplinary approach, with an emphasis on Earth Science, and addresses the need for intergration between subdisciplines and the developing of new approaches * Synthesizes the evolutionary, ecological, and chemical characteristics of major peatlands, as well as focuses on the environmental changes, from climate changes to surface ares changes due to human activities * Covers topical studies of worldwide interest and provides examples from many different countries
Why Peatlands Matter
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Author : CIFOR
language : en
Publisher: CIFOR
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Why Peatlands Matter written by CIFOR and has been published by CIFOR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with categories.
What is peat? Peat is a type of organic soil which is made up of partly decomposed vegetation and is formed over centuries in waterlogged conditions. Peat has been on our planet for around 360 million years. Some peatlands in existence today took more than 10,000 years to develop. Where is it found? Peat exists in a variety of climates around the world. From high altitudes to coastal areas and from tropical rainforests to permafrost regions towards the poles, where soil has been frozen year round for at least two years. The vast majority of peatlands can be found in colder climates, in temperate or boreal areas. Tropical countries with large stores of peat include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia and Peru. 68% of tropical peatlands are found in Southeast Asia.
Peatlands
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Author : MOORE
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1974-01-28
Peatlands written by MOORE and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-28 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Geochemical, biogeochemicals and ecosystems. Templastes of peat formation. The geochemical template. Mires-peat producing ecosystems. Adaptation in mire organisms. Peat stratigraphy - a record of succession. The microscopic components of peat. The world picture. The world's resource.
Peatlands
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Author : MOORE
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Peatlands written by MOORE and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with Science categories.
For many centuries peatlands have been a source of fascination to naturalists and scientists. When the itinerant John Leland passed through the peatlands of Central Wales in 1538 his comment was 'The pastures and montaynes of Cairdiganshire be so great that the hunderith part of hit roteth on the ground and makes sogges and quikke more by long continuance for lak of eting of hit'. His observation displays considerable ecological discernment, for he pinpoints those features of the peatland ecosystem which serve to differentiate it from all others and which have fired the imagination of generations of ecologists with an enthusiasm to understand the processes which Leland observed. Peatlands are, by definition, unbalanced systems in which the rate of production of organic material by living organisms exceeds the rate at which these compounds are respired and degraded. The result is an accumulation of a proportion of this production (not always the 'hunderith part'!) as an organic deposit which we term peat. As the peat blanket thickens, the surface vegetation becomes insulated from underlying soils and rocks, and the resulting environmental changes are often accompanied by floristic changes which reflect the altered hydro logy and chemistry of the peat surface. Peat producing ecosystems, or mires, are thus dynamic ecological entities, constantly changing, growing, spreading and eroding.
Catastrophe And Regeneration In Indonesia S Peatlands
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Author : Kosuke Mizuno
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2016-02-26
Catastrophe And Regeneration In Indonesia S Peatlands written by Kosuke Mizuno and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-26 with Social Science categories.
The serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Moreover peatlands that have been drained and cleared for plantations are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This new book explains the degradation of peat soils and outlines a potential course of action to deal with the catastrophe looming over the region. Concerted action will be required to reduce peatland fires, and a successful policy needs to enhance social welfare and economic survival, support natural conservation and provide a return on investment if there is to be a sustainable society in the peatlands. This book argues that regeneration is possible through a new policy of people’s forestry that includes reforestation and rewetting peat soils. The data come from a major long-term research effort—the humanosphere project—that coordinates work done by researchers from the physical, natural and human or social sciences.