Pollen analysis of a high altitude bog (Winterton Bog) and an alluvial soil sequence in the upper Awatere catchment on the western flanks of the Inland Kaikoura Range, and radiocarbon dates on wood and charcoal from the Marlborough region, have established a Holocene (post 10 000 years B.P.) vegetation history for this area. The upper slopes of the catchment were almost entirely clad in Podocar...

A 7000 year-long cirque glacier reconstruction from South Georgia, based on detailed analysis of fine-grained sediments deposited downstream in a bog and a lake, suggests continued presence during most of the Holocene. Glacier activity is inferred from various sedimentary properties including magnetic susceptibility (MS), dry bulk density (DBD), loss-on-ignition (LOI) and geochemical elements (...

Abstract Small mammals, such as small rodents (Rodentia: Muroidea) and shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), present particular challenges in camera trap surveys. Their size is often insufficient to trigger infra-red sensors, whilst resultant images may be of inadequate quality for species identification. The conventional survey method live-trapping, can both labour-intensive detrimental animal welf...

A tephrochronology has been established for a peat bog in the Lofoten Islands that provides a dating framework for future lake and bog studies of climate variation in this climatically sensitive area. Twenty-three tephra layers were identified, all apparently of Icelandic origin. These included the historically dated tephras of AD 1875 (Askja), AD 1362 (Öraefajökull), AD 1158 (Hekla), AD 1104 (...

This essay is about bog bodies – the preserved remains of prehistoric humans, often interpreted as ritual killings, found in peat bogs across northwest Europe. It considers the production of knowledge about the human past as a complex, relational process implicating multiple actors and traversing the terms of any straightforward nature-culture binary. It argues that theorizations of collective ...

Electrospray ionization–ion mobility spectrometry (ESI-IMS) was used to detect atrazine in a synthetic water sample that contained and water 0.01 M KCl that was collected from a natural cranberry bog. The bog water contained humic substances and had a dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration of There 16 mg/l. was no interference from these matrices observed in ESIIMS measurements. The analy...

Sarracenia Abstract: Bogs are one of the most unique wetlands on the planet and provide multiple ecosystem services. The central question we focus on in this study is to find out whether Mud Lake Bog, located near Pellston, Michigan has a nutrient gradient between Mud Lake and the surrounding forest. We then related these nutrient findings to see how the nutrient gradient affects the pigmentati...

Several studies on the impact of climate warming have indicated that peat decomposition/mineralization will be enhanced. Most of these studies deal with the impact of experimental warming during summer when prevalent abiotic conditions are favorable to decomposition. Here, we investigated the effect of experimental air warming by open-top chambers (OTCs) on water-extractable organic matter (WEO...

Atmospheric deposition of heavy metals and other pollutants has substantially increased due to human activities over the past several hundred years. For some metals such as lead and mercury, these changes have been well studied because of their potentially harmful impact to human and ecosystem health. However, some aspects of metal transport and storage in the environment are still not well und...