Hydroecology of Peatlands

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 524

Special Issue Editors

University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UMR UFC CNRS 6249 Chrono-Environnement, 1- route de Gray 25000 Besançon, 4 place Tharradin, 25200 Montbéliard, France
University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UMR UFC CNRS 6249 Chrono-Environnement, 1- route de Gray 25000 Besançon, 4 place Tharradin, 25200 Montbéliard, France

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The understanding and modelling of peatland hydroecology represent a multiscale challenge in the context of global land-use changes. At the ecosystem scale, specific microorganisms, flora, and fauna inherited from particular environmental conditions make many peatlands hot-spots of specific ecological values. At the watershed scale, peatlands may constitute recharge, transitory, or discharge areas that may substantially control discharge flow and quality for downstream areas. At the global scale, peatlands, representing only 3% of the worldwide emerged land surface represent 30% of the organic carbon contained in soil and therefore constitute a great carbon volume accumulated from long-term processes that could be released to the atmosphere.

Therefore, understanding the hydrological functioning and responses to climate changes and land-use alterations, such as drainage or restoration programs, and the relationships with the associated socio-ecosystemic services, such as carbon storage and specific diversity, is required to evaluate their evolution in the coming decades.

This Special Issue of Water welcomes submissions of case studies, reviews, or short communications that tackle one or several of these scales and their relationships. Hydro(geo)logical, (bio)geochemical, biological, and statistical/mechanistic modelling approaches, as well as pluridisciplinary perspectives, are welcome.

Dr. Guillaume Bertrand
Dr. Philippe Binet
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • climate changes
  • watershed
  • biochemistry
  • plant and microbial communities
  • water-table-depth
  • groundwater-dependent ecosystems
  • monitoring
  • modelling

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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