Author: Dan Charman
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: writers, ravan, change, environmental, peatlands
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-05-24
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0470844108
ISBN-13: 9780470844106

Peatlands and Environmental Change 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. The 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 supp