Mires and Peat

an online journal jointly published by imcg and ips

Volume 4 Special Volume: Wind Farms on Peatland (2008)

A special volume of the journal Mires and Peat is published in conjunction with the symposium “Wind Farms on
Peatland”, held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from 27 to 30 April 2008. The special volume will contain
the full peer-reviewed research papers upon which presentations at the symposium will be based, together
with review and synthesis items. Authors interested in submitting a paper to the special volume should download the instructions for authors.

• Article 1: Assessing the cumulative impacts of wind farms on peatland birds: a case study of golden plover Pluvialis apricaria in Scotland. by J.W. Pearce-Higgins, L. Stephen, R.H.W. Langston and J.A. Bright
  read abstract  download paper (250 KB)  Published online: 31.05.2008
  
  
• Article 2: Effects of wind farm construction and operation on mire and wet heath vegetation in the Monte Maior SCI, north-west Spain. by J. Fagúndez
  read abstract  download paper (700 KB)  Published online: 07.07.2008
  
  
• Article 3: Effects of wind farm construction on concentrations and fluxes of dissolved organic carbon and suspended sediment from peat catchments at Braes of Doune, central Scotland. by I. Grieve and D. Gilvear
  read abstract  download paper (500 KB)  Published online: 07.07.2008 
  
  
• Article 4: Wind farms and mires in the Basque Country and north-west Navarra, Spain. by P. Heras and M. Infante
  read abstract  download paper (1000 KB)  Published online: 07.07.2008 
  
  
• Article 5: Characterisation of organic carbon in mire and heath soils at the Elgea-Urkilla Wind Farm, northern Spain. by Z. Azkorra, A. Aizpurua, P. Riga, P. Heras, M. Ibargoitia, P. Gallejones, N. Gartzia, A. González and M. Camps Arbestain
  read abstract  download paper (775 KB)  Published online: 07.07.2008 
  
  

Volume 3 (2008)

• Article 1: Geomorphological controls on the re-vegetation of erosion gullies in blanket peat: implications for bog restoration. by S.K. Crowe, M.G. Evans and T.E.H. Allott
  read abstract  download paper (550 KB)  Published online: 15.02.2008
  
  
• Article 2: The role of peat in assuring the quality of growing media. by G. Schmilewski
  read abstract  download paper (125 KB)  Published online: 25.02.2008
  
  
• Article 3: Ditch network maintenance in peatland forest as a private investment: short- and long-term effects on financial performance at stand level. by A. Ahtikoski, S. Kojola, H. Hökkä and T. Penttilä
  read abstract  download paper (100 KB)  Published online: 08.03.2008
  
  
• Article 4: Long-term carbon accumulation in two tropical mountain peatlands, Andes Mountains, Ecuador. by R.A. Chimner and J.M. Karberg
  read abstract  download paper (450 KB)  Published online: 26.03.2008
  
  
• Article 5: Transient peat properties in two pond-peatland complexes in the sub-humid Western Boreal Plain, Canada. by R.M. Petrone, K.J. Devito, U. Silins, C. Mendoza, S.C. Brown, S.C. Kaufman and J.S. Price
  read abstract  download paper (500 KB)  Published online: 26.03.2008
  
  
• Book review 1: C. Van Duzer (2004): Floating Islands: A Global Bibliography - with an edition and translation of G.C.
  Munz’s Exercitatio academica de insulis natantibus (1711). by O. Bragg
  download review (50 KB)  Published online: 22.06.2008
  
  
• Book review 2: J. Dengler, C. Dolnik & M. Trepel (eds.) (2008): Flora, Vegetation and Nature Conservation from Schleswig-Holstein to South America – Festschrift for Klaus Dierssen on Occasion of his 60th Birthday. by O. Bragg 
   download review (125 KB)  Published online: 22.06.2008
  
  

Volume 2 (2007)

• Article 1: Comparison of Finnish and Russian approaches for large-scale vegetation mapping: a case study at Härkösuo Mire, eastern Finland. by O. Galanina and R. Heikkilä
  read abstract  download paper (525 KB)  Published online: 01.01.2007
  
  
• Article 2: The sensitivity of Sphagnum to surface layer conditions in a re-wetted bog: a simulation study of water stress. by J.M. Schouwenaars and A.M. Gosen
  read abstract  download paper (376 kB)  Published online: 16.04.2007
  
  
• Article 3: Microwave dielectric properties of horticultural peat products. by G. Ayalew, N.M. Holden and S.M. Ward
  read abstract  download paper (450 kB)  Published online: 19.04.2007
  
  
• Article 4: Significance of large peat blocks for river channel habitat and stream organic budgets. by S. Crowe and J. Warburton
  read abstract  download paper (500 kB)  Published online: 28.05.2007
  
  
• Article 5: The occurrence of an upper decomposed peat layer, or “kultureller Trockenhorizont”, in the Alps and Jura Mountains. by P. Sjögren, W.O. van der Knaap, J.F.N. van Leeuwen, M. Andrič and A. Grünig
  read abstract  download paper (360 kB)  Published online: 24.06.2007
  
  
• Article 6: Plant diversity associated with pools in natural and restored peatlands. by N. Fontaine, M. Poulin and L. Rochefort
  read abstract  download paper (500 kB)  Published online: 24.06.2007
  
  
• Article 7: The influence of degree of peat decomposition on phosphorus binding forms in fens. by S. Jordan, S. Velty and J. Zeitz
  read abstract  download paper (300 kB)  Published online: 14.10.2007
  
  
• Article 8: Characterisation of a basin mire in the Azores archipelago. by E. Dias and C. Mendes
  read abstract  download paper (430 kB)  Published online: 14.10.2007
  
  
• Article 9: The influence of peat volume change and vegetation on the hydrology of a kettle-hole wetland in Southern Ontario, Canada. by P. Whittington, M. Strack, R. van Haarlem, S. Kaufman, P. Stoesser, J. Maltez, J.S. Price and M. Stone
  read abstract  download paper (400 kB)  Published online: 16.12.2007
  
  MCG and IPS acknowledge the work of the reviewers.
  
  

Volume 1 (2006)

• Article 1: The distribution of peatland in Europe. by L. Montanarella, R.J.A. Jones and R. Hiederer
  read abstract  download paper (1 MB)  Published online: 01.01.2006
  
  
• Article 2: Chemical characteristics of some peatlands in southern Poland. by M. Malawska, A. Ekonomiuk and B. Wiłkomirski
  read abstract  download paper (500 kB)  Published online: 01.01.2006
  
  
• Article 3: Increased decomposition of subsurface peat in Swedish raised bogs: are temperate peatlands still net sinks of carbon? by L.G. Franzén
  read abstract  download paper (850 kB)  Published online: 14.02.2006
  
  
• Article 4: Causes of degradation and erosion of a blanket mire in the southern Pennines, UK. by D.E. Yeloff, J.C. Labadz and C.O. Hunt
  read abstract  download paper (550 kB)  Published online: 14.02.2006
  
  
• Article 5: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in peat cores from southern Poland: distribution in stratigraphic profiles as an indicator of PAH sources. by M. Malawska, A. Ekonomiuk and B. Wiłkomirski
  read abstract  download paper (550 kB)  Published online: 21.06.2006
  
  
• Article 6: Peat accumulation in kettle holes: bottom up or top down? by G. Gaudig, J. Couwenberg and H. Joosten
  read abstract  download paper (450 kB)  Published online: 06.12.2006
  

Reviewers

IMCG and IPS acknowledge the work of the reviewers.

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Key title: Mires and Peat	ISSN 1819-754X	Abbreviated key title: Mires Peat