The vast majority of inundated forests onpeat bogsare in boreal areas – extensively in Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, Russia, and China. The coast of the southeastUSA(Florida to North Carolina) also has considerable amounts, whilst in the tropics substantial peat bog forests are found in Borneo...
In the view of some scientists, peat is a precursor of a genetic series of coals. The places where peat is formed, peat bogs, are found in river valleys (floodplains and terraces) and at water divides. Peat is formed from the residues of dead plants whose aerial organs have become hum...
The world reserves of peat account above 500 billion tons at total area of bogs of 176 million ha. The largest reserves of peat (billion tons, 40 per cent humidity) are positioned in Russia (235), Indonesia (78,5), USA (36,3), Finland (35), Canada (35), China (27), Sweden (...
bogs, which are nourished exclusively by rainwater and dust, and generally show an acidic pH24. The free-floating island of Posta Fibreno is a peculiar formation whose features have been interpreted as somewhat hybrid between the two above types of mires. In fact, Zaccone et al.5 classified ...
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Similarly, the lowest num- bers of cells targeted with the probe HoAc1402 were detected both in highly acidic (pH 3.8–4.0) peat sampled from oligotrophic bogs Torfjanoye, Sekir- noye and Darvinskoye, and in moderately acidic (pH 5.9) peat from eutrophic fen Obskoye. Thus, we did not ...
Tropical peat swamp degradation can modify net peat greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions even without drainage. However, current Intergovernmental Panel on Clima
In Rwanda, the reserves of peat are probably between 5 and 50 million tonnes. The peat here is largely derived from papyrus and it is more difficult to excavate than in Burundi as the bogs cannot be drained due to their proximity to large river systems. However, the seasonal fall in the...
2001). Most started out as ponds that transitioned into fens, dominated by graminoid plant species, after which they transitioned into bogs as peat soil accumulated and plants become further removed from nutrients in local ground water. Although no longer having a boreal or subarctic climate, the...
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