Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F17%3A00509059" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/17:00509059 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/17:00113621
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299916" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299916</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Slovakia
Original language description
The European continent features an impressive variety of mires and peatlands. Polygon, palsa, and aapa mires, concentric and eccentric bogs, spring and percolation fens, coastal marshes, blanket bogs, saline fens, acid, alkaline, nutrient poor, nutrient rich: the peatlands of Europe represent unique ecosystem biodiversity and harbour a large treasure of flora and fauna typical of peat forming environments. Europe is also the continent with the longest history, the highest intensity, and the largest variety of peatland use, and as a consequence it has the highest proportion of degraded peatlands worldwide. Peatland science and technology developed in parallel to exploitation and it is therefore not surprising that almost all modern peatland terms and concepts originated and matured in Europe. Their massive degradation also kindled the desire to protect these beautiful landscapes, full of peculiar wildlife. In recent decades attention has widened to include additional vital ecosystem services that natural and restored peatlands provide. Already the first scientific book on peatlands (Schoockius 1658) contained a chapter on restoration. Yet, only now there is a rising awareness of the necessity to conserve and restore mires and peatlands in order to avoid adverse environmental and economic effects.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Mires and peatlands of Europe. Status, distribution and conservation
ISBN
978-3-510-65383-6
Number of pages of the result
8
Pages from-to
625-632
Number of pages of the book
780
Publisher name
Schweizerbart Science Publishers
Place of publication
Stuttgart
UT code for WoS chapter
000467833700050

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