Peatlands and Environmental Change

Due to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource, peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an important study area. Peatlands and Environmental Change offers a new approach by considering peatlands as a whole ecosystem, and thereby provides a better understanding of the importance and the consequences 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