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Fens and Bogs in the Netherlands: Vegetation, History, Nutrient Dynamics and Conservation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1992)
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Fens and Bogs in the Netherlands: Vegetation, History, Nutrient Dynamics and Conservation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1992)
Series: Geobotany, 18
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Peatlands are fascinating ecosystems. They are Boudewijn Beltman,
Jon den Held, Harm Piek, inhabited by a wealth of especially
adapted plant Drs. Niek van Heijst, Drs. Hermien van Sloch-
species, such as peat mosses, insectivorous teren and Dr. Taeke
Stol, who participated in plants, and nitrogen-fixing shrubs. They
also the early stages of the process. The help of Drs. have a
'memory' often going back thousands of G. J. Baayens in the
correction of chapter 5 is years, recorded in the layers of plant
remains gratefully acknowledged. accumulated underneath the present
plant cover. Chapters 6 and 7 have been supported by the Many
peatlands are relatively low-productive foundation 'Oecologia
Trajectina', Utrecht, by and species-rich, and show vegetational
gradients supplying grants made available by the 'Prins related to
water chemistry. Bernhard Fonds', Amsterdam and the 'Beij-
Peatlands have long been recognized for many erinck-Popping Fonds',
Amsterdam. I am indeb- values. The most conspicuous values
appreciated ted to Marjolein Smithuizen and Dick Smit of for the
Dutch mires were probably the great the Illustration division of
the faculty of Biology, potential of the large nutrient stores in
peat soils University of Utrecht, for the large number of for
agricultural purposes, and the high calorific drawings they
produced for the book. Gerrie value of peat when used as a fuel.
These values Bransen helped with the printing of the final have led
to large-scale exploitation and destruc- versions of the various
chapters.
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