ECOLOGY Landscape Ecology New Paradigm Peat Bogs Landscape
Peat bogs have
always been a main
interest of mine
The growth and development of temperate
ombrotrophic peat
I am currently writing a series of papers on the
instigation of peat, peat growth, pool development
and peat erosion. Watch this space!
Peat in the Falkland Islands
Observations on Falkland Islands’ peat including long-term dynamics .pdf 3.7mb
See also:
The Upland Ecology of Scotland: a Review of the
Favourable Condition Approach in Relation to Grazing
and Carbon Storage
This includes a discussion of peat’s role in carbon sequestration
& storage .pdf 2mb
Visual comparison of carbon stored in peat bogs
and in commercial forests
This illustrates how peat of c.10cm depth stores as much
carbon as a commercial plantation .pdf 3 mb
See my paper:
The rate of peat accumulation in Antarctic moss banks
Journal of Ecology, 1980, Vol.68, No, 1, pp. 211-228
See peat aspects of my New Paradigm
Download an illustrated article on my work as a British
Antarctic Survey botanist studying Antarctic moss peat
