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ESTONIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 87-93Publisher
ESTONIAN ACAD PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3176/earth.2008.2.04
Keywords
peat; peatland; production; protection; Estonia
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Estonia is rich in peatlands, which cover 22.3% of its territory. About 1/4 of them are under protection, similar to 2% have been assigned for peat production, and similar to 1% is abandoned. Several peatlands are drained, which poses a challenge to their sustainability. The use of Estonian peat resources is regulated following the principles of sustainable management. During the inventory of Estonian peatlands (1971-1987) the properties (i.e. botanical composition) and quantity of peat were specified. In this paper an overview of these studies is given and new research fields focussing on chemical components of Estonian peat, i.e. trace elements, balneological characteristics, as well as the usability of the abandoned peatlands, are discussed.
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