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This volume focuses on the geology, land use history, palaeoecology, ecology and conservation of peatlands (fens and bogs) in The Netherlands. The volume provides detailed accounts that, together, give a representative picture of the studies that have been carried out in the Dutch mires over the past 25 years. Contents: Chapter 1: Verhoeven -- Introduction. Chapter 2: Pons -- is a comprehensive geographic and pedological account of peat formation in space and time in the western coastal plain. Chapter 3: Casparia and Streefkerk -- is a detailed description of the various stages of development from fen to bog of the Bourtanger Moor. Chapter 4: Borger and Stol -- details the history of peat draining, digging and dredging in The Netherlands and Flanders. Chapter 5: Barkman -- deals with bog remnants in the eastern Netherlands and northwestern Germany. This chapter also includes data on oligotrophic heath pools which have a vegetation that is similar to that found in bogs. Chapters 6: Den Held; 7: Van Wirdum et al.; 8: Koerselman and Verhoeven -- are chapters on vegetation, synecology and nutrient dynamics of fens and chapter 9: Wiegers -- focuses mainly on terrestrializing fens that are so characteristic of the western Netherlands where they presently occur in turf ponds created by peat dredging in former centuries. Chapter 10: Vermeer and Joosten -- concludes the volume with a treatment of problems with mire conservation and management.

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Author:   Jos T.A. Verhoeven
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1992
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 19.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   1.221kg
ISBN:  

9789048140992

ISBN 10:   9048140994
Pages:   491
Publication Date:   07 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- II. Holocene peat formation in the lower parts of the Netherlands.- III. Climatological, stratigraphic and palaeo — ecological aspects of mire development.- IV. Draining-digging-dredging; the creation of a new landscape in the peat areas of the low countries.- V. Plant communities and synecology of bogs and heath pools in the Netherlands.- VI. Types of terrestrializing fen vegetation in the Netherlands.- VII. Terrestrializing fen vegetation in former turbaries in the Netherlands.- VIII. Carr vegetation: plant communities and succession of the dominant tree species.- IX. Nutrient dynamics in mires of various trophic status: nutrient inputs and outputs and the internal nutrient cycle.- X. Conservation and management of bog and fen reserves in the Netherlands.- List of contributors.

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