Boreal Peatland Ecosystems

✍ Scribed by R. Kelman Wieder, Dale H. Vitt, Brian W. Benscoter (auth.), Prof. Dr. R. Kelman Wieder, Prof. Dr. Dale H. Vitt (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 447
Series: Ecological Studies 188
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume adopts an ecosystems approach to understanding the world's boreal peatlands. It focuses on biogeochemical patterns and processes, production, decomposition, and peat accumulation, and 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. This carbon legacy is under threat from a wide diversity of disturbances, including wildfire, ongoing climate change, the changing chemistry of atmospheric deposition, and continuing resource exploitation. The volume is of interest to peatland researchers and resource managers, as well as to graduate students in ecosystem science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Peatlands and the Boreal Forest....Pages 1-8
Functional Characteristics and Indicators of Boreal Peatlands....Pages 9-24
The Postglacial Development of Boreal and Subarctic Peatlands....Pages 25-46
The Role of Sphagnum in Peatland Development and Persistence....Pages 47-65
Peatland Fauna....Pages 67-100
The Role of Fungi in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 101-123
Decomposition in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 125-143
Primary Production in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 145-164
Carbon in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 165-194
The Nitrogen Cycle in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 195-230
Phosphorous in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 231-258
Sulfur Cycling in Boreal Peatlands: from Acid Rain to Global Climate Change....Pages 259-287
The Hydrology of Peatlands....Pages 289-311
Modeling Ecosystem Processes and Peat Accumulation in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 313-329
Forestry and Boreal Peatlands....Pages 331-357
Disturbance in Boreal Peatlands....Pages 359-379
Restoration of Degraded Boreal Peatlands....Pages 381-423
Boreal Peatland Ecosystems: Our Carbon Heritage....Pages 425-429
Back Matter....Pages 431-437

✦ Subjects

Ecosystems; Biogeosciences; Terrestial Ecology; Forestry; Nature Conservation; Freshwater & Marine Ecology

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