Peatlands and Environmental Change

Preface and Acknowledgments.

PART I: INTRODUCTION.

Peat and Peatlands.

Peat Landforms and Structure.

PART II: PEATLAND PROCESSES.

Peatland Hydrology and Ecology.

Origins and Peat Initiation.

Peat Accumulation.

PART III: CHANGES IN PEATLANDS.

The Peatland Archive: Palaeoenvironmental Evidence.

Autogenic Change.

Allogenic Change.

Peatland -
Environment Feedbacks.

PART IV: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

Values, Exploitation and Human Impacts.

Conservation Management and Restoration.

References.

Index.