Book ID: 81041
Charman, Dan
Peatlands and Environmental Change. 2002. illus. XI, 301 p gr8vo. Hardcover.
Considers peatlands as a whole ecosystem and provides anunderstanding of the importance and consequences of the functioningof peatlands. Peat and peatlands, peat landforms and structure,peatland hydrology and ecology, origins and pest initiation, peataccumulation, paleoenvironmental evidence, autogenic change, allogenicchange, peatland - environmental feedbacks, values, ecploitationand restoration, conservation management and restoration.