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Peatlands and Environmental Change
Bok av Dan Charman
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: aeo Peat and peatlands aeo Peat landforms and structure aeo Peatland hydrology and ecology aeo Origins and pest initiation aeo Peat accumulation aeo The peatland archive: palaeoenvironmental evidence aeo Autogenic change aeo Allogenic change aeo Peatland -- environmental feedbacks aeo Values, exploitation and human impacts aeo Conservation management and restoration