Ebook: Fens and Bogs in the Netherlands: Vegetation, History, Nutrient Dynamics and Conservation

This volume focuses on the geology, land use history, palaeoecology, ecology and conservation of peatlands (fens and bogs) in The Netherlands. The volume provides detailed accounts that, together, give a representative picture of the studies that have been carried out in the Dutch mires over the past 25 years.
Contents: Chapter 1: Verhoeven -- Introduction. Chapter 2: Pons -- is a comprehensive geographic and pedological account of peat formation in space and time in the western coastal plain. Chapter 3: Casparia and Streefkerk -- is a detailed description of the various stages of development from fen to bog of the Bourtanger Moor. Chapter 4: Borger and Stol -- details the history of peat draining, digging and dredging in The Netherlands and Flanders. Chapter 5: Barkman -- deals with bog remnants in the eastern Netherlands and northwestern Germany. This chapter also includes data on oligotrophic heath pools which have a vegetation that is similar to that found in bogs. Chapters 6: Den Held; 7: Van Wirdum et al.; 8: Koerselman and Verhoeven -- are chapters on vegetation, synecology and nutrient dynamics of fens and chapter 9: Wiegers -- focuses mainly on terrestrializing fens that are so characteristic of the western Netherlands where they presently occur in turf ponds created by peat dredging in former centuries. Chapter 10: Vermeer and Joosten -- concludes the volume with a treatment of problems with mire conservation and management.

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This volume focuses on the geology, land use history, palaeoecology, ecology and conservation of peatlands (fens and bogs) in The Netherlands. The volume provides detailed accounts that, together, give a representative picture of the studies that have been carried out in the Dutch mires over the past 25 years.
Contents: Chapter 1: Verhoeven -- Introduction. Chapter 2: Pons -- is a comprehensive geographic and pedological account of peat formation in space and time in the western coastal plain. Chapter 3: Casparia and Streefkerk -- is a detailed description of the various stages of development from fen to bog of the Bourtanger Moor. Chapter 4: Borger and Stol -- details the history of peat draining, digging and dredging in The Netherlands and Flanders. Chapter 5: Barkman -- deals with bog remnants in the eastern Netherlands and northwestern Germany. This chapter also includes data on oligotrophic heath pools which have a vegetation that is similar to that found in bogs. Chapters 6: Den Held; 7: Van Wirdum et al.; 8: Koerselman and Verhoeven -- are chapters on vegetation, synecology and nutrient dynamics of fens and chapter 9: Wiegers -- focuses mainly on terrestrializing fens that are so characteristic of the western Netherlands where they presently occur in turf ponds created by peat dredging in former centuries. Chapter 10: Vermeer and Joosten -- concludes the volume with a treatment of problems with mire conservation and management.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Holocene peat formation in the lower parts of the Netherlands....Pages 7-79
Climatological, stratigraphic and palaeo-ecological aspects of mire development....Pages 81-129
Draining — digging — dredging; the creation of a new landscape in the peat areas of the low countries....Pages 131-171
Plant communities and synecology of bogs and heath pools in the Netherlands....Pages 173-235
Types of terrestrializing fen vegetation in the Netherlands....Pages 237-321
Terrestrializing fen vegetation in former turbaries in the Netherlands....Pages 323-360
Carr vegetation: plant communities and succession of the dominant tree species....Pages 361-395
Nutrient dynamics in mires of various trophic status: nutrient inputs and outputs and the internal nutrient cycle....Pages 397-432
Conservation and management of bog and fen reserves in the Netherlands....Pages 433-478
Back Matter....Pages 479-491

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This volume focuses on the geology, land use history, palaeoecology, ecology and conservation of peatlands (fens and bogs) in The Netherlands. The volume provides detailed accounts that, together, give a representative picture of the studies that have been carried out in the Dutch mires over the past 25 years.
Contents: Chapter 1: Verhoeven -- Introduction. Chapter 2: Pons -- is a comprehensive geographic and pedological account of peat formation in space and time in the western coastal plain. Chapter 3: Casparia and Streefkerk -- is a detailed description of the various stages of development from fen to bog of the Bourtanger Moor. Chapter 4: Borger and Stol -- details the history of peat draining, digging and dredging in The Netherlands and Flanders. Chapter 5: Barkman -- deals with bog remnants in the eastern Netherlands and northwestern Germany. This chapter also includes data on oligotrophic heath pools which have a vegetation that is similar to that found in bogs. Chapters 6: Den Held; 7: Van Wirdum et al.; 8: Koerselman and Verhoeven -- are chapters on vegetation, synecology and nutrient dynamics of fens and chapter 9: Wiegers -- focuses mainly on terrestrializing fens that are so characteristic of the western Netherlands where they presently occur in turf ponds created by peat dredging in former centuries. Chapter 10: Vermeer and Joosten -- concludes the volume with a treatment of problems with mire conservation and management.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Holocene peat formation in the lower parts of the Netherlands....Pages 7-79
Climatological, stratigraphic and palaeo-ecological aspects of mire development....Pages 81-129
Draining — digging — dredging; the creation of a new landscape in the peat areas of the low countries....Pages 131-171
Plant communities and synecology of bogs and heath pools in the Netherlands....Pages 173-235
Types of terrestrializing fen vegetation in the Netherlands....Pages 237-321
Terrestrializing fen vegetation in former turbaries in the Netherlands....Pages 323-360
Carr vegetation: plant communities and succession of the dominant tree species....Pages 361-395
Nutrient dynamics in mires of various trophic status: nutrient inputs and outputs and the internal nutrient cycle....Pages 397-432
Conservation and management of bog and fen reserves in the Netherlands....Pages 433-478
Back Matter....Pages 479-491
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