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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, Antoni Zięba, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica   +2 more
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Unveiling of a cryptic Dicranomyia (Idiopyga) from northern Finland using integrative approach (Diptera, Limoniidae)

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, Kari Kaunisto, Varpu Vahtera   +2 more
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Floristic composition of wetlands of the South African section of the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Park

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, D. C. Kotze, C. D. Morris   +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, Maltamo, Matti, Reinikainen, Antti   +2 more
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Peatlands of Southern South America: a review [PDF]

Mires and Peat, 2021
Southern South American peatlands (SSAP) play a key role in the ecological dynamics of Patagonia. They mostly comprise of undisturbed environments which provide important ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, water reservoir and habitat for
Carolina A. León, Marvin Gabriel, Carolina Rodríguez, Rodolfo Iturraspe, Adolfina Savoretti, Verónica Pancotto, Alfonso Benítez-Mora, Ariel Valdés, María F. Díaz, Christel Oberpaur, Erwin Domínguez, Leonardo D. Fernández, Roy Mackenzie, Thomas Roland, Dmitri Mauquoy, Claudia Silva   +15 more
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Undrained peatland areas disturbed by surrounding drainage : A large scale GIS analysis in Finland with a special focus on aapa mires [PDF]

, 2019
Half of the Finnish peatland area is drained for forestry. The remaining undrained peatlands are not all pristine, because surrounding drainage may disturb their hydrology.
Tuominen, Seppo, Sallinen, Antti, Tahvanainen, Teemu, Kumpula, Timo   +3 more
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The peatland map of Europe

, 2021
Based on the 'European Mires Book' of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), this article provides a composite map of national datasets as the first comprehensive peatland map for the whole of Europe. We also present estimates of the extent of
Risager, M., Sirin, A., Martinelli, G., Etzold, J., Stanova, V. Sefferova, Lonnstad, J., Milanovic, D., Dembek, W., Markina, A., Navratilova, J., Melovski, L., Sungaila, D., Lindsay, R., Steiner, G. M., Shumka, S., Alegro, A., Kuechler, M., Mykytiuk, O., Barthelmes, A., Essl, F., Muller, F., Priede, A., Fosaa, A. M., Bakuradze, T., Sommer, M., Bragazza, L., Skoberne, P., Christanis, K., Saveljic, D., Oskarsson, H., Hanganu, J., Ganeva, A., Busse, S., Napreenko, M., Kozulin, A., Belous, T., Marine, A. Moles, Kırca, Veysel Şadan Özgür, Szurdoki, E., Mendes, C., Joosten, H., Aleksans, O., Brink, S. H., Wust-Galley, C., Tanneberger, F., Connolly, J., Heras Perez, P., Apostolova, I., Moen, A., Leivits, A., Mateus, J., Jenderedjian, K., Tuominen, S., Frankard, P., Delipetrou, P., de Vries, F., Lazarevic, P., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Tegetmeyer, C.   +58 more
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Finnish botanists in the mires of Olonets region in Russian Karelia during the Second World War [PDF]

, 2019
In this article we compile wartime botanical information about mires in Olonets region (Russian Karelia) and compare it with new data collected as part of the Finnish-Russian cooperation in mire research.
Heikkilä, Raimo, R. Heikkilä, T. Lindholm, Kuznetsov, Oleg, Lindholm, Tapio, O. Kuznetsov   +5 more
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On the distribution and economic use of natural and anthropogenically transformed peatlands in the mountain-forest zone of the Republic of Bashkortostan and in the Bashkir Trans-Urals

Трансформация экосистем
An 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, P. S. Shirokikh, V. B. Martynenko, A. A. Muldashev, I. G. Bikbaev   +4 more
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A Simple and Inexpensive Method to Gain Diatom Absolute Abundances from Permanent Mounts in Hydrobiological and Paleoecological Research

Applied Sciences, 2023
Here, we describe and discuss a method based on microscopical field of view (FOV) area to estimate diatom absolute abundances (densities or concentrations), and we statistically verify its reliability, also comparing it to another commonly used method ...
Marco Cantonati, María Cid-Rodríguez, Floriana Rossi, Manel Leira   +3 more
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