• ISBN13: 9780470844106
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: April 29, 2002
• Pages: 312
• Original Price: GBP 88.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 667 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Science, and Earth Sciences / Geology

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

Dan Charman is the author of Peatlands and Environmental Change, published by Wiley.