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Rural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 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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Pinus mugo shrubs on peat bogs in the Tatra National Park
Plant and Fungal Systematics, 2021 Pinus mugo shrubs on peat bogs in the Tatra National Park (TNP) were for the first time described as a separated plant association by Obidowicz (1975) from only two mires.
Anna Maria Ociepa +2 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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Biodiversity Data Journal, 2014 The subgenus Idiopyga Savchenko, 1987 is a northern hemisphere group of short-palped crane flies (Diptera, Limoniidae). In the current article we describe a new species, Dicranomyia (I.) boreobaltica Salmela sp.n., and redescribe the male and female post-
Jukka Salmela +2 more
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Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2010 A survey was conducted on the wetlands in the South African section of the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Park (MDTP), along altitudinal gradients from the foothills to the summit plateau in six different catchments.
E. J. J. Sieben +2 more
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Canopy stratification in peatland forests in Finland
Silva Fennica, 2006 Abundance and species number of the tree and shrub vegetation in different canopy layers were analysed according to site quality class and drainage succession phase on permanent sample plots on spruce mires (n = 268) and pine mires (n = 628) in the ...
Hotanen, Juha-Pekka +2 more
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Strategies for peatland conservation in France - a review of progress [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2018 Mires in France provide important natural habitats. Although efforts to protect individual sites began in the 1970s, the development of strategies for mire conservation at regional, national and international levels is more recent.
F. Muller
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Трансформация экосистемAn inventory and a GIS-map of natural and anthropogenically transformed peatlands of the mountain-forest zone of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Bashkir Trans-Urals, represented by forest-steppe and steppe regions, are created in this study on the ...
E. Z. Baisheva +4 more
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Fen mires with cushion plants in Bale Mountains, Ethiopia [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2015 In March 2013 we investigated two small peatlands in the Bale Mountains in central Ethiopia. The mires are located on the Sanetti Plateau at an altitude of approximately 4000 metres above mean sea level (a.m.s.l.).
B.W. Dullo +4 more
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Parameterization of mires in a numerical weather prediction model
Water Resources Research, 2014 Mires (peat‐accumulating wetlands) occupy 8.1% of Russian territory and are especially numerous in the western Siberian Lowlands, where they can significantly modify atmospheric heat and water balances.
Alla Yurova +3 more
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