Research Catalog

Title

Peat stratigraphy and climatic change : a palaeoecological test of the theory of cyclic peat bog regeneration / K.E. Barber.

Author

Barber, K. E.

Publication

Rotterdam : Balkema, 1981.

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Details

Description

xii, 219 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Examines the relationship between bog growth and climatic change and is designed to test the validity of the theory, known variously as the 'regeneration cycle theory' or the 'hummock hollow theory', in which contiguous high and low spots on the peat surface are supposed to grow at different rates.

Subject

• Peat bogs
• Climatic changes
• Plant communities
• Climate Change
• climate change
• plant communities (natural)
• Plant communities
• Climatic changes
• Peat bogs
• Klimaänderung
• Stratigraphie
• Torfmoor

Note

• Two fold. leaves of ill. inserted.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 209-219.

Contents

PREVIOUS RESEARCH: Ideas on bog growth prior to 1910 -- Formulation of the cyclic regeneration theory -- Confirmatory evidence and early doubts -- New approaches and continuing traditions 1940-1960 -- Expansion and specialisation 1960-1977 -- Summary of previous research -- SITES INVESTIGATED: Bolton Fell Moss -- Other Cumbrian sites -- Other sites -- METHODS: Peat stratigraphy -- Macrofossil analyses -- Pollen analyses -- Other analyses -- Radiocarbon dating -- Land use history -- Climatic records -- RESULTS: Location of peat sections -- Field stratigraphy -- Pollen analyses and radiocarbon dating -- Macrofossil analyses -- Climatic records -- DISCUSSION: Pool formation -- Succession of Sphagna -- The roles of Calluna and Eriophorum vaginatum -- Growth and accumulation rates.

ISBN

• 9061910870
• 9789061910879

LCCN

81195892

OCLC

• ocm08012657
• 8012657
• SCSB-59537

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library