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Mires and mire types of Peninsula Mitre, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2014 In 2007, a field visit by members of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) to the Atlantic coast of Peninsula Mitre (the easternmost part of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) gathered information on mire diversity in this remote wild
A. Grootjans +4 more
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In Search of Spring Mires in Namibia: The Waterberg Area Revisited [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2015 The scarcity of peatlands and mires in Namibia is well known. Peatlands have been found in the north, which is the wettest part of the country. In the 1930s, spring mires were reported by German geologists in the Waterberg area, which also has relatively
A.P. Grootjans +5 more
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Interpreting Estonian mires: common perceptions and changing practices
Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2015 Over the centuries mires have been considered to be mostly useless, even dangerous places. Adopting a landscape semiotic perspective the article delineates the current common perceptions of Estonian mires based upon 767 questionnaires.
Piret Pungas-Kohv +5 more
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Rural Landscapes, 2021 Mires form a large part of the boreal Swedish landscape and are important for biodiversity and natural ecosystem processes. Historically, mires also played a key role for the expansion of agricultural practices, and later to create new forest land, but ...
Gudrun Norstedt +2 more
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Topology, Vegetation and Stratigraphy of Far Eastern Aapa Mires (Khabarovsk Region, Russia)
Land, 2022 Aapa mires (string-flark fens) are one of the main types of mires in northern Eurasia. It has an almost continuous distribution from Scandinavia to Kamchatka, disappearing in continental climate areas and becoming one of the dominant types in more ...
Stanislav Kutenkov +2 more
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A geographical model for the altitudinal zonation of mire types in the uplands of western Europe: the example of Les Monts du Forez in eastern France [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2014 The geographical distribution of mires in the oceanic mountain ranges of western Europe cannot be explained without bringing together a number of physical and human factors.
H. Cubizolle, G. Thebaud
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Three mires in the south-eastern Alps (northern Italy)
Journal of Maps, 2018 High-resolution vegetation maps, at 1:500 scale, were realized in three mires located in the Italian south-eastern Alps (Coltrondo West, 12,800 m2; Coltrondo South, 22,300 m2 and Palù di sotto, 50,600 m2).
Marcello Tomaselli +2 more
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The variation in water content and in concentrations in trace metals in peat in different mire types [PDF]
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 1991 The mires in Ostrobothnia, Western Finland, can be classified into four types by trophic status: oligotrophic, oligo-mesotrophic, mesotrophic and meso-eutrophic mires.
Y. He, K. Virtanen
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Neurotherapeutics, 2015 Alzheimer’s disease researchers are a pretty dispirited lot these days. In the first half of the 20th century research on this malady and an understanding of its impact on society were limited in scope and intensity. The dementia described by Alois Alzheimer was felt to refer to a relatively rare disease of middle age and different from senile dementia
Michael, Shelanski, Roger, Lefort
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