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The IPS is an organisation of corporate and individual members dedicated to the responsible management and Wise Use of peatlands and peat.

It promotes the gathering, exchange and communication of knowledge and experience.

The Society serves all those interested in peat and peatlands, including the scientific, industrial and commercial, and regulatory communities.

It respects the economic, social and environmental values of the peatland resource.

Currently the IPS has 1,412 individual and institutional members from 42 countries.

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Latest news

  • Annual Report 2012
  • Interns at the IPS Secretariat
  • David Bellamy IPS Honorary Member
  • Peat News 3/2012 published
  • Do you receive Peat News?
  • Toimitila Jyväskylän keskustassa
  • Government and Expert Review of the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC...
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Online shop

  • Peatlands International 2/2010
  • Peatlands Below Sea Level, Wageningen 1981
  • The spirit of peatlands, Jyväskylä 1998
  • 11th International Peat Congress, Québec 2000
  • Remote Sensing in Peat and Terrain Resource Surveys, Aberdeen 1983
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Document database

  • Subfossil Swedish bog-pines as indicators of mid-Holocene...
  • The effects of restoration on bacterial community structure in a...
  • Peat News 12/2012
  • Sphagnum decay rate as a functional trait
  • Impact of climate change on the water balance of fen wetlands in the...
  • The peatlands of Lesotho – an important ecological and socio-econmic...
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Open positions

  • Internship IPS Secretariat: International Business Management /...
  • 36-month PostDoc on measurement and modeling of soil carbon stocks...
  • Peatland Restoration Natural Talent Apprenticeship
  • Research Technician - WC1051
  • Communications Officer Wetlands International
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Peatland News

  • Indonesia's forests - The Economist
  • Explore the Soggy Life at the Cranesville Swamp Preserve - NBC4 Washington (blog)
  • Government licensed secret buzzard egg destruction, documents reveal - The Guardian
  • Greens fighting for non-existent trees, says forestry official - The Border Mail
  • Nature | Seven Days - Nature.com
  • EU allocates €1.4m grant to Belarus for Aquatic Warbler conservation efforts - News of Belarus
  • State of Nature: Scottish wildlife 'under growing threat' - BBC News
  • Drehid community grants announced - Leinster Leader
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Scholar

  • Klein et al 2013: Hydrology-mediated differential response of carbon accumulation to late Holocene climate change at two...
  • Moore et al 2013: Deep instability of deforested tropical peatlands revealed by fluvial organic carbon fluxes
  • Elsgaard 2013: Reductive transformation and inhibitory effect of ethylene under methanogenic conditions in peat-soil
  • Saarinen et al 2013: Impact of peatland forestry on runoff water quality in areas with sulphide-bearing sediments; how t...
  • Guo et al 2013: Degradation and structure change of humic acids corresponding to water decline in Zoige peatland, Qingha...
  • Loisel et al 2013: Quantifying landscape morphology influence on peatland lateral expansion using ground penetrating rad...
  • Ruthsatz 2012: Vegetation and ecology of the high Andean peatlands of Bolivia
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International Peat Society Kauppakatu 19 D 31 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland
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+358 40 418 4075
E-mail:
ips@peatsociety.org

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