Mires and peatlands on the web

Disclaimer: IMCG is not responsible for the information provided via the links

Do you know a good web site about mire conservation? Send us the link.

New web sites

• Restoring boreal peatlands in Natura 2000 areas in Finland http://www.metsa.fi/borealpeatlandlife
• Nordic peat Network http://www.oulu.fi/poves/nordicpeatnetwork/index.html
• Restoring blanket bogs in wales blanketbogswales.org
• The Mysterious Bogpeople bogpeople.org
• Peatland Conservation in Germany wagner-ugau.de/data/moore/moore.html
• Global Peatland Initiative Global Peatland Initiative
• The Wise Use Of Mires And Peatlands - Online Documentation mirewiseuse.com

International Organisations

• Ramsar ramsar.org
• Wetlands International wetlands.org
• IUCN iucn.org
• International Peat Society peatsociety.org
• Society of Wetland Scientists sws.org
• Society for Ecological Restoration ser.org
• International Association of Vegetation Science iavs.org
• Saving the plants of Europe plantaeuropa.org
• African Conservation Foundation africanconservation.org
• Peat portal http://www.peat-portal.net/

National Organisations

• Peatlands in Russia http://www.peatlands.ru
• Peatlands in Belorussia http://www.peatlands.by
• Mire Conservation in France http://www.pole-tourbieres.org/
• Irish Peatland Conservation Council ipcc.ie
• Mire conservation in Poland bagna.pl
• Finnish Peatland Society Suoseura suoseura.fi
• German Peat Society DGMT dgmtev.de
• Scottish wildlife trust swt.org.uk
• British Ecological Society Mires Research Group britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/groups/mires/
• British Bryological Society rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/bbs.htm
• Peatlands in UK peatlandsni.gov.uk
• Mires and Peatands in northern Finland oulu.fi/northnature/Northnature.html
• Bulgarian mires and springs sci.muni.cz/botany/mirecol/bulgaria.php
• Mire Conservation in Switzerland http://www.bafu.admin.ch/lebensraeume/01555/index.html?lang=de

Research on Mires and Peatlands

• Mire ecology research group in Slovakia sci.muni.cz/botany/mirecol
• University of Waterloo Wetlands Research Centre
• PERG: Peatland Ecology Research Group, Canada gret-perg.ulaval.ca/
• Peatland Ecosystem Analysis and Training Network peatnet.siu.edu
• University of Alberta: Stephen C. Zoltai Peatland Resource Centre devonian.ualberta.ca/peatland/
• University of Munich: Vegetation Ecology wzw.tum.de/vegoek/index.html
• University of Greifswald: Geobotany and Landscape Ecology uni-greifswald.de/~botanik
• Centre for Agricultural Landscape andLand Use Research (ZALF) e.V zalf.de/home_zalf/institute/lwh/lwh
• Laboratory of Plant Ecology, University of Groningen rug.nl/biologie/onderzoek/onderzoekgroepen/cocon/index?lang=en/
• Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group, Wageningen University dow.wau.nl/natcons/NP/
• Environmental Biology, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands eco.science.ru.nl/mibiol/mibio.htm
• Environmental Geochemistry uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak12/ugc/bshhome/bshhome.htm

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Mires on the Web

• United Kingdom Sommerset Levels and Moors
• United Kingdom Wicken Fen
• United Kingdom North Pennines
• Denmark Skjern River
• Texas, USA Flynn Bog
• South Africa Peatlands of South Africa
• Australia Wingecarribee Wetland Collapse, Australia
• Scotland Blanket Bog Restoration in Scotland
• Russia Visit Peatlands in Russia
• France National Centre for Mire Conservation in France
• Nigula Nature Reserve nigula.ee

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Journals

• Mires and Peat
• Wetlands
• Wetlands Ecology and Management
• Journal of Vegetation Science
• Applied Vegetation Science
• Journal of Hydrology
• Hydrological processes
• Restoration Ecology
• Suo
• International Peat Journal
• Telma
• Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

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Personal Mire Pages

• Jaanus Paal; including a Bibliography of Estonian publications about mires
• Philippe Julve' Page incl. Mire Plant Species List
• Rodolfo Iturraspe mire research and conservation in Argentina
• Victor Masing In Honour of Victor Masing

Other interesting stuff

• National Wetlands Inventory Center of the United States
• 100topwetlandsites.com/
• soils.usda.gov/use/hydric/ Hydric Soils of the US
• Mire and peatland conservation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany um.mv-regierung.de/moore/grundlagen/index.html
• Reluctant Time Travelers: Bog Bodies of Europe
• Many links to Soils
• Background paper from IUCN: Wetlands and climate change
• Chilean Sphagnum Moss Los Volcanes
• Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association
• Stiftung Naturschutz Schleswig-Holstein stiftung-naturschutz-sh.de/

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last update 22. 08. 2010