{"product_id":"peatlands-and-environmental-change-isbn-9780470844106","title":"Peatlands and Environmental Change","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Contents include:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e * Peat and peatlands\u003cbr\u003e * Peat landforms and structure\u003cbr\u003e * Peatland hydrology and ecology\u003cbr\u003e * Origins and pest initiation\u003cbr\u003e * Peat accumulation\u003cbr\u003e * The peatland archive: palaeoenvironmental evidence\u003cbr\u003e * Autogenic change\u003cbr\u003e * Allogenic change\u003cbr\u003e * Peatland - environmental feedbacks\u003cbr\u003e * Values, exploitation and human impacts\u003cbr\u003e * Conservation management and restoration \u003cp\u003ePreface and acknowledgements ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 Peat and Peatlands \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction: wetlands and peatlands 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Peat and peatland definitions and terminology 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Scientific classification systems 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Fens and bogs: a key concept 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Hydromorphological peatland classification 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Mire distribution 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Summary 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Peat Landforms and Structure 24\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introduction: peat landforms 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Landform development: form, process and time 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Description of peat landforms 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Landform survey techniques 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Peat landform survey: an example from Scotland 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Hydrology and peat landforms: the groundwater mound hypothesis 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Summary 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Peat land Processes 39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Peatland Hydrology and Ecology 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Introduction 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Hydrology and water balance 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Water movement within peatlands 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Outflows 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Hydrochemistry 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Chemical processes within peatlands 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Ecology and ecohydrology 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Limiting factors for plants and animals 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Environmental gradients 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.10 Summary 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 Origins and Peat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eInitiation 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introduction: time and peat growth 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Frameworks for peat growth 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Pathways to peal growth: terrestrialisation and paludification 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Evidence for the origins of peatlands 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Examples of peat initiation 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Blanket mire initiation in the British Isles 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Causes of paludification in other mires 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 Human impact as a cause of peat growth in other peatlands 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.9 Tropical peat initiation 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.10 Beavers and peat initiation 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.11 Summary 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 Peat Accumulation 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Peatland cycles one peat accumulation 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Productivity 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Decay 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Models of peat accumulation 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Variability in long-term accumulation rates 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Summary 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Changes in Peat lands 115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 The Peatland Archive \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePalaeoenvironmental \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvidence 117\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 The range of evidence and some general principles 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Reasons for Palaeoenvironmental studies on peatlands 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Measuring time peatland chronologies 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Survey and stratigraphy 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Biological evidence of past changes 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Physical and chemical characteristics 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Multi-proxy approaches 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9 Summary 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Autogenic Change 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction: long-term change 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Autogenic anti allogenic causes of change 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Hydroseral succession 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Reversals and other successions 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Processes of terrestrialisation and the transition to bog peat 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Lateral expansion and the development of peal land landscapes 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 ‘Mature’ peatlands and erosion 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Cyclic regeneration 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.9 Pattern development 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.10 Plant-mediated changes 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.11 Physical processes in cold climate peatlands 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.12 Summary 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 Allogenic Change 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Climate 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Fire 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Hydrological factors 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Volcanic influences 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Climate reconstruction from peat 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 Summary 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 Peatland-Environment Feedbacks \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e184\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Introduction 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Catchment hydrology 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Water quality 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Peatlands and global climate 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Carbon budgets and gas exchange 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 Impacts of management and climate change on carbon cycling 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7 Summary 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Resource Management \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 Values Exploitation and Human Impacts \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e207\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Introduction: peatland values 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Economic values mid exploitation 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Wildlife conservation values 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Functional values 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Value to society 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Conservation and ‘wise use’ of peatlands 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7 Impacts of recent human disturbance: drainage as a key process 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.8 Peat extraction 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.9 Forestry 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.10 Agricultural reclamation 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.11 Effects of fragmentation 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.12 Pollution 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.13 Recreation and other disturbance 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.14 Long-term anthropogenic disturbance 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.15 Summary 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 Conservation Management and Restoration \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e231\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Introduction 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Naturalness disturbance and conservation 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Management options for disturbed peatlands 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Semi-natural peatlands habitat management 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Restoration and rehabilitation 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6 Restoration of cutover ombrotrophic mires 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7 Restoring other damaged systems 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.8 The future for peatlands in the twenty-first century 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 289\u003c\/p\u003e \"...an ideal introduction to peatlands...\" (Journal of Soils \u0026amp;Sediments, Vol.2, No.3, 2002)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"...a welcome and timely addition...\" (Land Degradation andDevelopment, November\/December 2002)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"...a comprehensive summary of peatland science...it willbroaden specialists' and students' knowledge...\" (InternationalJournal of Environment Studies, Vol.60, No.2, 2003)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"...certainly a book that should be on the shelves of allpeatland researchers...\" (Environmental Conservation, Vol.30,No.1, 2003)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ....\"Overall, this is an outstanding book. Peatlands and Environmental Change is very highlyrecommended both for personal and library use, and should be on arange of reading lists....\" (The Holocene,July 2003)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ...\"All in all this is a very good and well produced book.... and will become a widely cited reference text ...\" (EarthSurface Processes \u0026amp; Landforms, Spetember 2003) \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Charman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ePeatlands and Environmental Change\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Wiley.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003ePeatlands and Environmental Change\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive summary of peatland science. The emphasis is on peatlands as dynamic parts of the landscape that are undergoing constant change as a result of processes of peat accumulation and development, as well as through human activity and climatic variability.  \u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into four parts that look in turn at the nature of peatland classification and terminology, hydrological and ecological processes and peatland growth, changes in peatlands and their influence on the environment, and resource management issues. Each chapter is supported by examples from all the main peatland regions and site types including New Zealand, Australia and the tropics, as well as Europe and North America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeatlands and Environmental Change\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal introduction to peatlands for those developing an understanding of these ecosystems, and for specialists who wish to broaden their knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989758132453,"sku":"NP9780470844106","price":118.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470844106.jpg?v=1761785379","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/peatlands-and-environmental-change-isbn-9780470844106","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}