Mires and Peat

an online journal jointly published by imcg and ips

Volume 7 Special Volume: A Review of Protocols in Peat Palaeoenvironmental Studies (2010/11)

Guest Editors: François De Vleeschouwer, Paul Hughes, Jonathan Nichols and Frank Chambers

Information about the planned scope and purpose of this volume can be found in the Foreword. 
Any suggestions for additional contributions should be discussed with Olivia Bragg or any of the Guest Editors at the earliest opportunity.

• Foreword: A Review of Protocols in Peat Palaeoenvironmental Studies. by F. De Vleeschouwer, P.D.M. Hughes, J.E. Nichols and F.M. Chambers
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• Article 1: Coring and sub-sampling of peatlands for palaeoenvironmental research. by F. De Vleeschouwer, F.M. Chambers and G.T. Swindles
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• Article 2: Preparation and analysis of testate amoebae in peatland palaeoenvironmental studies. by R.K. Booth, M. Lamentowicz and D.J. Charman
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• Article 3: Dating recent peat profiles using spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs). by G.T. Swindles
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• Article 4: Preparation of peat samples for inorganic geochemistry used as palaeoenvironmental proxies by G. Le Roux and F. De Vleeschouwer
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Volume 6 (2010)

• Article 1: Ecohydrological features of some contrasting mires in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. by A. Grootjans, R. Iturraspe, A. Lanting, C. Fritz and H. Joosten
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• Article 2: The physical properties of peat: a key factor for modern growing media. by J.-C. Michel
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• Article 3: Dispersal of Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull. seeds on severely burnt upland moorland. by J.A. Gilbert and K.R. Butt
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• Article 4: Carbon storage in the peatlands of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, north-east Germany. by M. Zauft, H. Fell, F. Glaßer, N. Rosskopf and J. Zeitz
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Volume 5 (2009)

• Article 1: A carbon fibre composite (CFC) Byelorussian peat corer. by L.G. Franzén and T.L. Ljung
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• Article 2: Financial assessment of oil palm cultivation on peatland in Selangor, Malaysia. by M.N. Noormahayu, A.R. Khalid and M.A. Elsadig
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• Article 3: The impact of birch seedlings on evapotranspiration from a mined peatland: an experimental study in southern Quebec, Canada. by E. Fay and C. Lavoie
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• Article 4: Development of a raised bog over 9000 years in Atlantic Canada. by A. Robichaud & Y. Bégin
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• Article 5: Evaluation of digital photography as a tool for field monitoring in potentially inhospitable environments. by J.A. Gilbert and K.R. Butt
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• Article 6: Cloudberry cultivation in cutover peatlands: hydrological and soil physical impacts on the growth of different clones and cultivars. by G. Théroux Rancourt, L. Rochefort and L. Lapointe
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• Article 7: Conditions favouring survival of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) rhizomes planted in cutover peatland. by M. Bellemare, L. Lapointe, G. Chiasson, J-Y. Daigle and L. Rochefort
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Reviewers

IMCG and IPS acknowledge the work of the reviewers.

Volume 4 Special Volume: Wind Farms on Peatland (2008-2010)

A special volume published in conjunction with the symposium “Wind Farms on Peatland”, held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from 27 to 30 April 2008. It contains full peer-reviewed research and review papers relating to a selection of the symposium presentations, as well as from other authors. This volume is now closed.

• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Article 4: Wind farms and mires in the Basque Country and north-west Navarra, Spain. by P. Heras and M. Infante
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• 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
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• Article 6: Assessing the impact of wind farms on the plant diversity of blanket bogs in the Xistral Mountains (NW Spain). by M.I. Fraga, D. Romero-Pedreira, M. Souto, D. Castro and E. Sahuquillo
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• Article 7: Spatial overlap of wind farms on peatland with sensitive areas for birds. by J.A. Bright, R.H.W. Langston, J.W. Pearce-Higgins, R. Bullman, R. Evans and S. Gardner
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• Article 8: Peatland vulnerability to energy-related developments from climate change policy in Ireland: the case of wind farms. by F. Renou-Wilson and C.A. Farrell
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• Article 9: Calculating carbon budgets of wind farms on Scottish peatlands. by D.R. Nayak, D. Miller, A. Nolan, P. Smith and J.U. Smith
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• Article 10: CO₂ payback time for a wind farm on afforested peatland in the UK. by J.T. Mitchell, J. Grace and G.P. Harrison
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Reviewers

IMCG and IPS acknowledge the work of the reviewers.

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
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• Article 2: The role of peat in assuring the quality of growing media. by G. Schmilewski
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• 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
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• Article 4: Long-term carbon accumulation in two tropical mountain peatlands, Andes Mountains, Ecuador. by R.A. Chimner and J.M. Karberg
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• 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
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• Article 6: Peat-based organic growbags as a solution to the mineral wool waste problem. by O. Grunert, M. Perneel and S. Vandaele
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• Article 7: Approaches to estimating humification indicators for peat. by M. Klavins, J. Sire, O. Purmalis and V. Melecis
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• Article 8: Peat in horticulture and conservation: the UK response to a changing world. by P.D. Alexander, N.C. Bragg, R. Meade, G. Padelopoulos and O. Watts
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• Article 9: Peat humification and climate change: a multi-site comparison from mires in south-east Alaska. by R.J. Payne and J.J. Blackford
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• Article 10: Establishing trees on cut-over peatlands in eastern Canada. by J. Bussières, S. Boudreau and L. Rochefort
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• Article 11: Fertiliser addition is important for tree growth on cut-over peatlands in eastern Canada. by G. Caisse, S. Boudreau, A.D. Munson and L. Rochefort
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Reviewers

IMCG and IPS acknowledge the work of the reviewers.

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
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• 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
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• Article 3: Microwave dielectric properties of horticultural peat products. by G. Ayalew, N.M. Holden and S.M. Ward
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• Article 4: Significance of large peat blocks for river channel habitat and stream organic budgets. by S. Crowe and J. Warburton
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• 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
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• Article 6: Plant diversity associated with pools in natural and restored peatlands. by N. Fontaine, M. Poulin and L. Rochefort
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• Article 7: The influence of degree of peat decomposition on phosphorus binding forms in fens. by S. Jordan, S. Velty and J. Zeitz
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• Article 8: Characterisation of a basin mire in the Azores archipelago. by E. Dias and C. Mendes
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• 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
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Reviewers

IMCG 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
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• Article 2: Chemical characteristics of some peatlands in southern Poland. by M. Malawska, A. Ekonomiuk and B. Wiłkomirski
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• Article 3: Increased decomposition of subsurface peat in Swedish raised bogs: are temperate peatlands still net sinks of carbon? by L.G. Franzén
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• 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
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• 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
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• Article 6: Peat accumulation in kettle holes: bottom up or top down? by G. Gaudig, J. Couwenberg and H. Joosten
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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