Impact of Re-wetting of Forestry-Drained Peatlands on Water Quality—a Laboratory Approach Assessing the Release of P, N, Fe, and Dissolved Organic Carbon

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 227, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Kaila, Annu ^a   Asam, Zaki ^b,c   Koskinen, Markku ^d   Uusitalo, Risto ^a   Smolander, Aino ^a   Kiikkilä, Oili ^a   Sarkkola, Sakari ^a   O’Driscoll, Connie ^b,e   Kitunen, Veikko ^a   Fritze, Hannu ^a   Nousiainen, Hannu ^a   Tervahauta, Arja ^a   Xiao, Liwen ^e   Nieminen, Mika ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DOC; Iron; Nitrogen; Peatland forests; Phosphorus; Restoration

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IRON; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; PEAT; PHOSPHORUS; RESTORATION; STREAM FLOW; TIMBER; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

CENTRAL FINLAND; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FORESTRY-DRAINED PEATLANDS; LABORATORY COLUMNS; NITRATE RELEASE; OXYGEN DEPLETION; PEATLAND; RECEIVING WATERS;

WETTING;

ALUMINUM; AMMONIA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; IRON; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FORESTRY; IRON; LABORATORY METHOD; NITROGEN; PEATLAND; PHOSPHORUS; REWETTING; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; FINLAND; FORESTRY; LABORATORY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; PEATLAND; RE-WETTING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL AND SOIL RELATED PHENOMENA; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROFLORA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

FINLAND;

EID: 84980347842     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-016-2994-9     Document Type: Article

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