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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
The peatland map of Europe
Mires and Peat, Volume 19, Article 22, Year 2017
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Description
Based on the ‘European Mires Book’ of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), this article provides a composite map of national datasets as the first comprehensive peatland map for the whole of Europe. We also present estimates of the extent of peatlands and mires in each European country individually and for the entire continent. A minimum peat thickness criterion has not been strictly applied, to allow for (often historically determined) country-specific definitions. Our ‘peatland’ concept includes all ‘mires’, which are peatlands where peat is being formed. The map was constructed by merging national datasets in GIS while maintaining the mapping scales of the original input data. This ‘bottom-up’ approach indicates that the overall area of peatland in Europe is 593,727 km2. Mires were found to cover more than 320,000 km2 (around 54 % of the total peatland area). If shallow-peat lands (< 30 cm peat) in European Russia are also taken into account, the total peatland area in Europe is more than 1,000,000 km2 which is almost 10 % of the total surface area. Composite inventories of national peatland information, as presented here for Europe, may serve to identify gaps and priority areas for field survey, and help to cross-check and calibrate remote sensing based mapping approaches. © 2017 International Mire Conservation Group and International Peatland Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Tanneberger, Franziska
Germany, Greifswald
Universität Greifswald
Tegetmeyer, Cosima
Germany, Greifswald
Universität Greifswald
Essl, Franz
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
Milanović, Đorđije
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Banja Luka
University of Banja Luka
Apostolova, Iva I.
Bulgaria, Sofia
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Alegro, Antun L.
Croatia, Zagreb
University of Zagreb
Delipetrou, Pinelopi
Greece, Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sommer, Michael M.
Germany, Muncheberg
Leibniz-zentrum Für Agrarlandschaftsforschung Zalf E. V.
Christanis, Kimon
Greece, Rio
University of Patras
Szurdoki, Erzsébet
Hungary, Budapest
Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum
Bragazza, Luca
Italy, Ferrara
University of Ferrara
Saveljić, Darko
Unknown Affiliation
Napreenko, Maxim G.
Russian Federation, Kaliningrad
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Lazarević́, Predrag M.
Serbia, Belgrade
University of Belgrade
Joosten, Hans
Germany, Greifswald
Universität Greifswald
Statistics
Citations: 111
Authors: 15
Affiliations: 34
Identifiers
Doi:
10.19189/MaP.2016.OMB.264
ISSN:
1819754X
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative