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

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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. Show more