Peat deposits occur in areas where water logging is common. Large areas of blanket mire occur throughout the temperate and cold regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and are particularly extensive in the UK Uplands. Mass movements of peat, reported usually as peat slides and bog bursts, have been well documented for over 150 years. However, the fundamental controls of this form of sh...

Pore water and solid phase samples were collected from the upper 50 cm of a peat profile at four sites within a 10 m area in Kleinstuck Marsh, a minerotropic fen located in Kalamazoo, MI. Although the chosen sites are in close proximity to each other, they differ with respect to vegetation species and density. Pore water analyses for a suite of redox sensitive species (pH, alkalinity, dissolved...

Approximately 15 percent of Sweden’s land area is covered by peat ( 30 cm deep). In drained peatlands, decomposition of the peat produces greenhouse gases such as CO2 and N2O. Electric conductivity, measured with the instrument EM38, can be used to assess spatial variation in soil properties. To easier decide the quantity of the CO2-emissions from a peatland the possible relation between electr...

The socio-environmental challenges the world faces are ‘swamps’: situations that messy, complex, and uncertain. aim of this paper is to help disciplinary scientists navigate these swamps. To achieve this, evaluates an integrative framework designed for researching complex real-world problems, Integration Implementation Science (i2S) framework. As a pilot study, we examine seven inter transdisci...

J. Inst. Brew. 112(4), 333–339, 2006 It is not known if peats derived from different areas of Scotland have distinctive chemical constituents that could impact on malt whisky in discernible organoleptic ways. Fourier transforminfrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy was used as a high throughput screening method to investigate discrimination of a large number of peat samples from six different geographica...

One source of energy, the importance of which has been realized with the advance of increasing fuel prices, is peat, a renewing resource of nature typical for some areas in northern Europe. Because of the comparatively difficult processing properties of peat and the quite short history of efficient development on this area the technology of peat burning plants now needs a systematic programme o...

The majority of the catchment (area 0.95 km2) is corered by a thin deposit of blanket peat. Peats, over 5 m deep in places, occur in small valley depressions. Two transects across the depressions were selected for a radiocarbon and palaeoecological study into peatland initiation and development (Jones, 1987). As in the Loch Dungeon study, analysis of pollen from peat profiles enables a picture ...