Supplement Classification of Peat and Peatlands Hyytiälä 1979

Classification of Peat and Peatlands

Supplement to the Proceedings of Hyytiälä 1979

Helsinki 1979

56 pages

CONTENTS

Further contributions
On peatlands and their utilization, especially in Finland – Kivinen, E.
The Finnish contribution to the preservation of the internationally important mires – Ruuhijärvi, R.
Preservation of mires in Norway: a situation report – Moen, A.

Coordinators’ reports
Classification and regionality of peatland complex types (Section A) – Damman, A.W.H.
Classification of peatland site types (Section B) – Dierssen, K.
Peat quality and fertility of site types (Section C) – Holmen, H.
Classification of peats (Section D) – Okruszko, H.
Proposal for an international classification of peat
Dynamics and evolution of peatlands (Section E) – Vasari, Y.
Conservation vs. use of peatlands (Section F) – Moen, A.