Author: Michel BechtoldPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889760529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Observing, Modeling and Understanding Processes in Natural and Managed Peatlands
Author: Michel BechtoldPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889760529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Peatlands mapping and monitoring
Author: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251322953
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Integration of peatlands into land-use monitoring systems is central to the conservation of their carbon storage – be they conserved, degraded or restored. Healthy peatlands mitigate climate change, enhance adaptive capacity and maintain ecosystem services and biodiversity. Albeit peatlands are starting to receive a high level of attention and the scientific basis for their monitoring has quickly developed over the last few years. Robust and practical approaches and tools for developing and integrating peatland-monitoring into national monitoring and reporting frameworks is an important opportunity for countries to limit global warming to 2 °C.
Towards Climate-responsible Peatlands Management
Author: Riccardo BiancalaniPublisher: Mitigation of Climate Change i
ISBN: 9789251085462
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The aim of this guidebook is to support the reduction of GHG emissions from managed peatlands and present guidance for responsible management practices that can maintain peatlands ecosystem services while sustaining and improving local livelihoods. This guidebook also provides an overview of the present knowledge on peatlands, including their geographic distribution, ecological characteristics and socio-economic importance.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Tropical Peatland Eco-management
Author: Mitsuru OsakiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981334654X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
In this "Tropical Peatland Eco-management" book, eco-management is new terminology as an abbreviation of "ecology-based management for natural capital enhancement". Key concept on this eco-management is derived from previous book: "Tropical Peatland Ecosystem"(Springer, 2015, eds. by M. Osaki and N. Tsuji). Based on this new concept, this book thoroughly examines tropical peatland eco-management for scientists, political decision makers, governmental officials, land managers, students, and NGO/NPOs who are interested in 1) what the impact of peatland on climate change and ecosystem function, 2) how the management of disturbed peatland, and 3) drawing global scale restoration mechanisms of peatland and wetland. In tropical peatland, a large amount of GHGs (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) is emitted due to the unappropriate development and inadequate management of peatland. The peatland ecosystems consist of the carbon–water complex, which is affected easily by the impact of human and climate change. Throughout much research of tropical peatland, the problems that result from development of tropical peatland are found to stem mainly from a lack of understanding of the complexities of this ecosystem and the fragility of the relationship between peat and forest and also between carbon and water. In past, almost all peatland development and management system have been generally designed on “water drainage system”. On the contrast of old system, an innovated eco- management is, here, proposed as “water irrigation system”, including water cycling and natural capital enhancement. Through this book readers will learn the advanced peatland eco-management, with more practical methods and procedure based on ecosystem knowledge.
Wetland Ecology and Biogeochemistry Under Natural and Human Disturbance
Author: Jianghua WuPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889718220
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Cover Image taken by Topic Editor Jianghua Wu
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Wetlands: Monitoring, Modelling and Management
Author: Tomasz OkruszkoPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482288478
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Wetlands are complex and dynamic ecological systems incorporating two important, inter-linked components: hydrology and vegetation. Modelling wetland components and processes reveals the nature of wetland systems and helps to predict the effects of environmental change. The main goal of much current research is the construction of a vigorous and sp
Conserving Bogs
Author: Rob E. StonemanPublisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN: 9780114958367
Category : Bog conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bogs are fascinating landscapes for ecologists, climatologists, archaeologists, environmental historians and water managers. But many bogs have been damaged, and legislative protection - as 29 case studies demonstrate - is not enough to conserve the rest.
Boreal Peatland Ecosystems
Author: R.K. WiederPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540319131
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This is the first truly ecosystem-oriented book on peatlands. It adopts an ecosystems approach to understanding the world's boreal peatlands. The focus is on biogeochemical patterns and processes, production, decomposition, and peat accumulation, and it provides additional information on animal and fungal diversity. A recurring theme is the legacy of boreal peatlands as impressive accumulators of carbon as peat over millennia.