Foreword ......................................................... v
Preface ........................................................ vii
List of Contributors .......................................... xiii
List of Reviewers ............................................. xvii
1 Peatlands: a concise guide to the volume ...................... 1
I.P. Martini, A. Martinez Cortizas and W. Chesworth
A. Peatland basin analysis: evolution and structure ............. 15
2 Northern Peatlands: their characteristics, development
and sensitivity to climate change ............................ 17
С. Tarnocai and V. Stolbovoy
3 The cold-climate peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowland,
Canada: brief overview of recent work ........................ 53
L.P. Martini
4 Mountain mires from Galicia (NW Spain) ....................... 85
X. Pontevedra-Pombal, J.C. Nóvoa Munoz,
E. Garcia-Rodeja and A. Martinez Cortizas
5 Geomorphologic emplacement and vegetation
characteristics of Fuegian peatlands, southernmost
Argentina, South America .................................... 111
A. Coronato, С. Roig, L. Collado and F. Roig
6 The peatlands of Argentine Tierra del Fuego as a
source for paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental
information ................................................. 129
J. Rabassa, A. Coronato, C.J. Heusser,
F. Roig Junent, A. Borromei, С. Roig and
M. Quattrocchio
7 Lowland tropical peatlands of Southeast Asia ................ 145
S.E. Page, J.O. Rieley and R. Wüst
B. Selected characteristics of peat and peatland environments .. 173
8 The redox-pH approach to the geochemistry of the Earth's
land surface, with application to peatlands ................ 175
W. Chesworth, A. Martinez Cortizas and
E. Garcia-Rodeja
9 Weathering of inorganic matter in bogs ....................... 197
G. Le Roux and W. Shotyk
10 Molecular chemistry by pyrolysis-GC/MS of
selected samples of the Penido Velio peat
deposit Galicia ............................................. 217
N.W. Spain, P. Buurman, K.G.J. Nierop, X. Pontevedra-
Pombal and A. Martinez Cortizas
11 Mineral matter, major elements, and trace elements in
raised bog peat: a case study from southern Sweden,
Ireland and Tierra del Fuego, south Argentina ............... 241
L.G. Franzen
12 Consequences of increasing levels of atmospheric
nitrogen deposition on ombrotrophic peatlands:
a plant-based perspective ................................... 271
L. Bragazza
13 Microbial diversity in Sphagnum peatlands ................... 287
D. Gilbert and E.A.D. Mitchell
14 Peatland hydrology .......................................... 319
J. Holden
15 Hydrogeology of major peat basins in North America .......... 347
P.H. Glaser, D.I. Siegel, A.S. Reeve and
J.P. Chanton
16 Slope instability and mass movements in peat deposits ....... 377
A.P. Dykes and K.J. Kirk
C. Peatlands as multi-signal archives of environmental
changes ..................................................... 407
17 Using bog archives to reconstruct paleopollution and
vegetation change during the late Holocene .................. 409
T.M. Mighall, S. Timberlake, D.A. Jenkins and
J.P. Grattan
18 Beyond the peat: synthesizing peat, lake sediments and
soils in studies of the Swedish environment ................. 431
R. Bindler and J. Klaminder
19 Occurrence and fate of halogens in mires .................... 449
H. Biester, A. Martinez Cortizas and F. Keppler
20 Mercury in mires ............................................ 465
H. Biester, R. Bindler and A. Martinez Cortizas
21 Archiving natural and anthropogenic lead deposition
in peatlands ................................................ 479
M.E. Kylander, D.J. Weiss, E. Peiteado Varela,
T. Taboada Rodriguez and A. Martinez Cortizas
D. Direct human impact on peatlands ............................ 499
22 Impacts of artificial drainage of peatlands on runoff
production and water quality ................................ 501
J. Holden, P.J. Chapman, S.N. Lane and С. Brookes
23 Peatland subsidence in the Venice watershed ................. 529
M. Camporese, G. Gambolati, M. Putti and P. Teatini
Glossary ....................................................... 551
Subject Index .................................................. 573
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