Report of activities on peatland research 1985

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Agriculture Canada

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This report of Activities summarizes a variety of work carried out by the Land Resource Research Institute, Agriculture Canada on peatland projects supported by the National Research Council (NRC) Peat Forum. The papers presented in this report are concerned with the characterization and analysis of peat in the field and in the laboratory. There are four papers presented in the report. The first paper discusses the importance of botanical composition as a criteria for the classification of organic soils and suggestions for the incorporation of botanical composition into the classification system are presented. The second paper presents suggestions for the use of micromorphological techniques to describe and characterize organic soils and discusses how micromorphological data can be used to compliment field observations and analytical data. The third paper discusses the importance of quality control procedures (the standardization of analytical procedures and the use of organic soil reference samples) for the analysis of organic soils. As well the progress towards the development of six reference samples is outlined. The final paper is a summary of results and discussion of a workshop on field tests and field methods for organic soils The importance of standardization of field tests and suggestions of the acceptable limits of variability were presented.

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Archive of Agri-Environmental Programs in Ontario, Federal Documents and Miscellaneous Reports, peatland, botanical composition, organic soil, micromorphology

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