International Peat Journal 8 1998

Jyväskylä 1998

Editor: Jack Rieley

ISSN 0782-7784

112 pages

CONTENTS

The Use of Natural and Altered Peats for Adsorption of the BTEX Components of Gasoline in Water — S. Eltayeb, A.M. Rizzuti, A.D. Cohen, E.M. Stack, J. Liu and J.R. Durig
By-Pass of Water Through Laboratory Columns of Milled Peat — N.M. Holden
A Milled Peat Stockpile Rewetting Model — N.M. Holden and S.M. Ward
The Occurrence of 137Cs and 90Sr and Their Mobility in Peat Soils of Byelorussia — S.V. Ovsiannikova, G.A. Sokolik, E.A. Eismont and S.Y. Rubinchik
Seed and Spore Bank in a Cut-Away Peatland Twenty Years after Abandonment — M. Huopalainen, E-S. Tuittila, J. Laine and H. Vasander
Whangamarino Wetland: Effects of Lowered River Levels on Peat and Vegetation — J.C. Shearer and B.R. Clarkson

Short Communications
Influence of Peat Biostimulators Applied to Polluted and Unpolluted Soils on the Yield of Radish and its Content of Some Nutrient and Heavy Metal Elements — P. Ilnicki and Z. Nowińska
Gradients of Microbial Biomass, Anaerobically-Mineralizable N and Some Physical Properties in a Restiad Peat Bog — L.A. Schipper, M. McLeod, B.R. Clarkson, M. Vojvodic-Vukovic and M.D. Taylor
Effect of Secondary Transformation State of Peat-Muck Soils on Their Amino Acid Content — L. Szajdak, T. Matuszewska and J. Gawlik
Desalination Effect of Adding Peat to an Alkali Sandy Soil — F. Jin, Y. Nishizaki, T. Yamaguchi and C. Wang
Comparison of Basic Characteristics of Humic Acids Extracted from Peats and Other Sources — T. Yamaguchi, H. Hayashi, Y. Yazawa, M. Uomori, F. Yazaki and N.N. Bambalov

Reviews
Tropical Peatlands: A Review of Their Natural Resource Functions, with Particular Reference to Southeast Asia — S.E. Page and J.O. Rieley
Characteristics of Tropical Peat and Its Possible Use as a Soil Ameliorant — B. Radjagukguk, Y. Nishizaki, Y. Yazawa and T. Yamaguchi