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Water Chemistry and Community in Peatlands: Dynamics and Disturbances of Water Environment and Wetlands Community

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 1975

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Faculty of Environmental Engineering, The University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan
Interests: peatlands; sphagnum; aquatic macrophytes; water chemistry; soil; forests
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Dear Colleagues,

Peatlands are pools of organic carbon and are important ecosystems for buffering atmospheric carbon. Peat-forming plants function by accumulating atmospheric carbon and form wetlands vegetation. The wetlands community are strongly affected by the hydrological and chemical environment of aquatic systems and the community established and maintained by the interaction between plants and water environments. The physiological properties of aquatic plants and their consequential potential of carbon accumulation are also affected by the water environment. This Special Issue focuses on the interaction between the chemical environment and aquatic plants, both in natural and disturbed peatlands, and seeks to contribute clarification regarding the mechanism of succession of natural peatland ecosystems and the restoration of disturbed ecosystems.

This Special Issue is open to submissions by researchers from both fundamental and applied research fields.

Prof. Dr. Akira Haraguchi
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Keywords

  • aquatic plants
  • peat
  • biogeochemistry
  • wetlands
  • disturbance
  • vegetation

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A Case Study of a 10-Year Change in the Vegetation and Water Environments of Volcanic Mires in South-Western Japan
by Akira Haraguchi
Water 2022, 14(24), 4132; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14244132 - 19 Dec 2022
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Variations in the groundwater environments and dominant species of volcanic mire vegetation were monitored for 10 years in a volcanic area in south-western Japan. The correlation between changes in groundwater environments and vegetation revealed that changes in water environments determine the dominant species [...] Read more.
Variations in the groundwater environments and dominant species of volcanic mire vegetation were monitored for 10 years in a volcanic area in south-western Japan. The correlation between changes in groundwater environments and vegetation revealed that changes in water environments determine the dominant species of volcanic mire vegetation. The amount of spring water supplied to the mire vegetation determines the water-table depth and the subsequent nutrient supply. The Sphagnum spp. coverage decreased with increasing base cation concentrations, particularly the Ca2+ concentration up to 40 mg/L. The Moliniopsis japonica coverage increased with the decreasing Sphagnum spp. coverage. The nutritional variables of water supplied to vegetation affected by volcanic activity changed the type of dominant species. A 10-year change in vegetation in the volcanic mires revealed that vegetation succession in volcanic mires evolved from ombrogenous to minerogenous and from minerogenous to ombrogenous communities. The water environment promoted changes in the dominant species. Full article
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