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Author : C.H. Fuchsman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1851660097
This text is based on papers presented at a Peat Dewatering symposium at Rivere-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, in June 1985.
Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781642830804
In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded. Swamplands celebrates these wild places, as journalist Edward Struzik highlights the unappreciated struggle to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It inspires us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet's survival might depend on it.
Author : Matt Candeias
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781642504545
The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.
Author : R.K. Wieder,D.H. Vitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540319139
This is the first truly ecosystem-oriented book on peatlands. It adopts an ecosystems approach to understanding the world's boreal peatlands. The focus is on biogeochemical patterns and processes, production, decomposition, and peat accumulation, and it provides additional information on animal and fungal diversity. A recurring theme is the legacy of boreal peatlands as impressive accumulators of carbon as peat over millennia.
Author : Don H. Boelter,Elon S. Verry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Forest influences
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977751Y
Author : Kenneth N. Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Peat
ISBN : MINN:31951P006722142
Author : J. P. Andriesse
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN : 9251026572
Distribution of tropical peat; Formation of peats; The main characteristics of tropical peats; Classification; Agricultural potential; Reclamation problems; Agricultural management; Energy use of peat; Environmental aspects of reclamation.
Author : Andrew J. Baird,Lisa R. Belyea Belyea,Xavier Comas,A. S. Reeve,Lee D. Slater
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118671634
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 184. Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands examines the role that northern peatlands play in regulating the atmospheric carbon budget. It summarizes current research in four interconnected areas: large-scale peatland dynamics and carbon cycling; plant and microbial dynamics and their effect on carbon fluxes to the atmosphere; methane accumulation in, and loss from, peatlands; and water and dissolved carbon fluxes through peatlands. The volume highlights include A thorough assessment of the challenges involved in incorporating carbon cycling in northern peatlands into global climate models; A conceptual model to examine the partitioning of terminal carbon mineralization into production of CO2 and CH4; A comprehensive review of the evidence for the accumulation of methane in deep and shallow peat; and A description of the hydrologic changes induced by peat harvesting and associated challenges in restoring altered peatlands to their natural hydrologic regime. Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands will be of interest to research scientists and graduate and undergraduate students, particularly those who wish to know more about the role of peatlands in the global carbon cycle and their role as modifiers of climate.
Author : I.P. Martini,A. Martinez Cortizas,W. Chesworth
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0080468055
'In the past two decades there has been considerable work on global climatic change and its effect on the ecosphere, as well as on local and global environmental changes triggered by human activities. From the tropics to the Arctic, peatlands have developed under various geological conditions, and they provide good records of global and local changes since the Late Pleistocene. The objectives of the book are to analyze topics such as geological evolution of major peatlands basins; peatlands as self sustaining ecosystems; chemical environment of peatlands: water and peat chemistry; peatlands as archives of environmental changes; influence of peatlands on atmosphere: circular complex interactions; remote sensing studies of peatlands; peatlands as a resource; peatlands degradation, restoration, plus more.' * Presents an interdisciplinary approach, with an emphasis on Earth Science, and addresses the need for intergration between subdisciplines and the developing of new approaches * Synthesizes the evolutionary, ecological, and chemical characteristics of major peatlands, as well as focuses on the environmental changes, from climate changes to surface ares changes due to human activities * Covers topical studies of worldwide interest and provides examples from many different countries
Author : Mitsuru Osaki,Nobuyuki Tsuji,Nazir Foead,Jack Rieley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813346543
In this "Tropical Peatland Eco-management" book, eco-management is new terminology as an abbreviation of "ecology-based management for natural capital enhancement". Key concept on this eco-management is derived from previous book: "Tropical Peatland Ecosystem"(Springer, 2015, eds. by M. Osaki and N. Tsuji). Based on this new concept, this book thoroughly examines tropical peatland eco-management for scientists, political decision makers, governmental officials, land managers, students, and NGO/NPOs who are interested in 1) what the impact of peatland on climate change and ecosystem function, 2) how the management of disturbed peatland, and 3) drawing global scale restoration mechanisms of peatland and wetland. In tropical peatland, a large amount of GHGs (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) is emitted due to the unappropriate development and inadequate management of peatland. The peatland ecosystems consist of the carbon–water complex, which is affected easily by the impact of human and climate change. Throughout much research of tropical peatland, the problems that result from development of tropical peatland are found to stem mainly from a lack of understanding of the complexities of this ecosystem and the fragility of the relationship between peat and forest and also between carbon and water. In past, almost all peatland development and management system have been generally designed on “water drainage system”. On the contrast of old system, an innovated eco- management is, here, proposed as “water irrigation system”, including water cycling and natural capital enhancement. Through this book readers will learn the advanced peatland eco-management, with more practical methods and procedure based on ecosystem knowledge.
Author : Camp, Dresser & McKee. Environmental Sciences Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Aquatic organisms
ISBN : PURD:32754076956063
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Patents
ISBN : IOWA:31858029578113
Author : Mitsuru Osaki,Nobuyuki Tsuji
Publisher : Springer
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431556817
This book is an excellent resource for scientists, political decision makers, and students interested in the impact of peatlands on climate change and ecosystem function, containing a plethora of recent research results such as monitoring-sensing-modeling for carbon–water flux/storage, biodiversity and peatland management in tropical regions. It is estimated that more than 23 million hectares (62 %) of the total global tropical peatland area are located in Southeast Asia, in lowland or coastal areas of East Sumatra, Kalimantan, West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak and Southeast Thailand. Tropical peatland has a vital carbon–water storage function and is host to a huge diversity of plant and animal species. Peatland ecosystems are extremely vulnerable to climate change and the impacts of human activities such as logging, drainage and conversion to agricultural land. In Southeast Asia, severe episodic droughts associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, in combination with over-drainage, forest degradation, and land-use changes, have caused widespread peatland fires and microbial peat oxidation. Indonesia's 20 Mha peatland area is estimated to include about 45–55 GtC of carbon stocks. As a result of land use and development, Indonesia is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases (2–3 Gtons carbon dioxide equivalent per year), 80 % of which is due to deforestation and peatland loss. Thus, tropical peatlands are key ecosystems in terms of the carbon–water cycle and climate change.
Author : Antoni W. H. Damman,Thomas W. French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Peat bog ecology
ISBN : PURD:32754004386359
Author : Cornelia C. Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Geology
ISBN : PSU:000020739980
The use of physical characteristics of peat and geologic settings of the deposits as guides to peat resources.