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Ch. 1 Peatland habitats
Wetlands, peatlands, and mires
Peatland habitats along wetness and chemical gradients
Origin of groundwater and trophic classes
The main ecosystems: marsh, swamp, fen, bog
Environmental gradients as a basis for a finer classification
Peatland classifications
Ch. 2 Diversity of life in peatlands
Fungi and microorganisms
Protozoa
Microalgae
Lichens
Plants
Animals
Ch. 3 Adaptations to the peatland habitat / With Contributions from Baptiste Regnery
Plant adaptations to flooding and anoxic conditions
Plant adaptations to low nutrient availability
The perfect peatland plant
Adaptations in animals
Ch. 4 Sphagnum-the builder of boreal peatlands
Morphology
Capillarity and water-holding capacity
Chemical adaptations
Nutrient conservation
Sphagnum life cycle
Diversity of Sphagnum
Sphagnum as an environmental indicator
Biological interactions in Sphagnum
Dispersal and colonization
Dynamics and persistence in Sphagnum assemblages
Ch. 5 Peat and organic soil
Sedentation versus sedimentation
Organic versus mineral matter content
Sampling the peat profile
Botanical composition
Degree of decomposition
Physical properties
Electrochemical and chemical properties
Interrelationships of peat properties
Organic soils (histosols)
Ch. 6 The peat archives
Peat fossils
Other environmental indicators
The problem of dating profiles
The Blytt-Sernander scheme
Pleistocene peatlands
Wetland archaeology
Ch. 7 Peatland succession and development
Peatland succession
Successional pathways
Processes of peatland formation
Ombrotrophication
Detailed sequences of peatland development
Ch. 8 Peatland hydrology
Water quantity
Acrotelm and catotelm
Water balance
Peatlands as regulators of water flow
Water quality
Variation in water chemistry along the bog-rich fen gradient
Ch. 9 Nutrients, light, and temperature
Nutrients
Light
Temperature and other climatic factors
Ch. 10 Hydrological systems, hydromorphology, and peatland patterns
Hydrological systems
Hydromorphologic classification
The formation of peatland patterns
Ch. 11 Peatlands around the world
Areas of peatland
Peatland areas used for agriculture, forestry, and peat harvesting
A brief global survey
Peatlands in Tierra del Fuego / Dmitri Mauquoy and Keith D. Bennett
Restiad bogs in New Zealand / Beverley R. Clarkson and Bruce D. Clarkson
Tropical peatlands in south-east Asia / Aljosja Hooijer
Productivity and peat accumulation
Biomass and productivity
Decomposition
Carbon flow in peatlands
Peat accumulation and its limits
Ch. 13 Management, conservation, and restoration of peatlands
Historical development of peatland use
Agriculture on peatland
Forestry on peatland
Peat extraction
Peatland conservation
Restoration, reclamation, and after-use
Peatland societies and organizations
Ch. 14 Peatlands and climate change
Carbon pools in peatlands
Greenhouse gases and radiative forcing
Methods to study environmental changes in peatland
Current carbon balance in peatlands
Effects of climate change on peatlands
Effects of drainage for forestry and agriculture
Peat harvest
Effects of climate change in permafrost regions
Conclusions