Peatlands and Environmental Change

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