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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Peatland"”.
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Investigating Peatland Margins and Determining the Role of Peatland Margin Characteristics in the Resilience of Blanket Peatland
… Heritage Site,<br/>representing a globally rare peatland type called blanket bog. Despite this, many<br/>challenges face the future of this type of peatland, including the increased demand for renewable energy infrastructure, as well as decisions regarding current forestry on blanket bog. …
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Peatland Afforestation: Effects and Restoration
… on the biodiversity of this globally important peatland, the ecological outcomes of restoration interventions, and the implications for conservation management and policy. Using a combination of comparative global assessments, long-term species monitoring, and large-scale experimental …
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Archaeological geophysical prospection in peatland environments.
… prospection and landscape investigation tools in peatland environments. It examines previous attempts to prospect peatland sites, both in archaeology and environmental science. These attempts show that under the right circumstances, archaeological and landscape features could be detected by these …
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Hydrologic Regime and Soil Property Interactions in a Forested Peatland
Globally, peatlands are vulnerable to degradation via drainage, with consequences for ecosystem structure and function such as increased fire vulnerability, soil oxidation, and altered vegetation composition. Peatland function is largely dependent on hydrologic regimes and their influences on the …
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Monitoring Peatland Damage and Restoration Using Testate Amoebae as Indicator Organisms
… amoebae communities to restoration at three peatland sites in the UK. It builds upon the use of testate amoebae analysis as a palaeoenvironmental tool by exploring the hypothesis that testate amoebae respond to hydrological conditions in restored mires. Previous research has found that …
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Mechanisms and controls of trace gas releases from a northern peatland
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991.
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Peatland burning identification among other wildfires across different ecozones in Canada
… concerns about the vulnerability of global peatlands—key ecosystems storing substantial amounts of terrestrial carbon. Peatlands, traditionally resistant to burning, are increasingly at risk due to climate-induced warmer and drier conditions. This study specifically investigates the extent …
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Carbon fluxes from tropical peatlands : methane, carbon dioxide, and peatland subsidence
Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia have sequestered carbon over thousands of years and are an important global carbon stock. In natural peat swamp forests, high water levels inhibit decomposition due to anoxic conditions. However, they are being rapidly deforested and drained, releasing stored …
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Ground vegetation gross primary production dynamics of a drained peatland forest ecosystem
Northern peatlands store approximately one-third of total global terrestrial carbon (C). These peatlands were partly drained for agriculture and forestry. In drained peatland forest, beside tree stands, ground vegetation is another relevant component concerning C fluxes between the land and the …
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Variations in Water Storage Capacity of a Mountain Peatland with Complex Stratigraphy
Peatlands in the Rocky Mountains most commonly occur in valley bottoms and are classified as fens. Understanding how fens influence water storage and water release is essential for better predicting water availability as the climate changes. Peatlands located in mountain regions tend to have a …
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The impact of conifer plantation forestry on the ecology of peatland lakes
… implications for the management of afforested peatlands. Further research is required on blanket bog lakes to prevent any further plantation forestry-mediated habitat deterioration of this rare and protected habitat.
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Carbon budget of a drained peatland in Western Iceland and initial effects of rewetting
Northern peatlands store vast amounts of organic carbon in their soils. They play an important role in the context of climate change, as they act as a valuable key source and sink for all the main greenhouse gases. In their natural stage, peatlands act as sinks of atmospheric CO2 and sources of …
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The tropical peatland carbon sink: climatic drivers and modelling of peat accumulation at the pan-tropical scale
Tropical peatlands are carbon-dense ecosystems and act as a globally important carbon sink. However, uncertainties exist about the climatic and environmental drivers of carbon accumulation and about the future of the carbon sink with climate change. There are also relatively few modelling studies …
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Piezocone mapping, groundwater monitoring, and flow modeling in a riverine peatland : implications for the transport of arsenic
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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