Peatlands and Environmental Change

By Dan Charman

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470844108
• ISBN13: 9780470844106
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.5"