Water Chemistry and Community in Peatlands: Dynamics and Disturbances of Water Environment and Wetlands Community
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 1602
Special Issue Editor
Interests: peatlands; sphagnum; aquatic macrophytes; water chemistry; soil; forests
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Peatlands are pools of organic carbon and are important ecosystems for buffering atmospheric carbon. Peat-forming plants function by accumulating atmospheric carbon and form wetlands vegetation. The wetlands community are strongly affected by the hydrological and chemical environment of aquatic systems and the community established and maintained by the interaction between plants and water environments. The physiological properties of aquatic plants and their consequential potential of carbon accumulation are also affected by the water environment. This Special Issue focuses on the interaction between the chemical environment and aquatic plants, both in natural and disturbed peatlands, and seeks to contribute clarification regarding the mechanism of succession of natural peatland ecosystems and the restoration of disturbed ecosystems.
This Special Issue is open to submissions by researchers from both fundamental and applied research fields.
Prof. Dr. Akira Haraguchi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aquatic plants
- peat
- biogeochemistry
- wetlands
- disturbance
- vegetation
