International Peat Journal No. 8 - 1998

The Use of Natural and Altered Peats for Adsorption of the BTEX
Components of Gasoline in Water
S. Eltayeb, A. M. Rizzuti, A. D. Cohen, E. M. Stack, J. Liu and J. R. Durig

By-Pass of Water through Laboratory Columns of Milled Peat
N. M. Holden

A Milled Peat Stockpile Rewetting Model
N.M. Holden and S.M. Ward

The Occurrence of 137Cs and 90Sr and their Mobility in
Peat Soils of Byelorussia
S.V. Ovsiannikova, G.A. Sokolik, E.A. Eismont and S.Y. Rubinchik

Seed and Spore Bank in a Cut-Away Peatland Twenty Years
after Abandonment
M. Huopalainen, E-S. Tuittila, J. Laine and H. Vasander

Whangamarino Wetland: Effects of Lowered River Levels on
Peat and Vegetation
J.C. Shearer and B.R. Clarkson

Short Comunications:

Influence of Peat Biostimulators Applied to Polluted and Unpolluted Soils
on the Yield of Radish and its Content of Some Nutrient and Heavy Metal Elements
P. Ilnicki and Z. Nowiñska

Gradients of Microbial Biomass, Anaerobically-Mineralizable N and
Some Physical Properties in a Restiad Peat Bog
L.A. Schipper, M. McLeod, B.R. Clarkson, M. Vojvodic-Vukovic
and M.D. Taylor

Effect of Secondary Transformation State of Peat-Muck Soils on
their Amino Acid Content
L. Szajdak, T. Matuszewska and J. Gawlik

Desalination Effect of Adding Peat to an Alkali Sandy Soil
F. Jin, Y. Nishizaki, T. Yamaguchi and C. Wang

Comparison of Basic Characteristics of Humic Acids Extracted from
Peats and Other Sources
T. Yamaguchi, H. Hayashi, Y. Yazawa, M. Uomori, F. Yazaki
and N. N. Bambalov

Reviews:

Tropical Peatlands: A Review of Their Natural Resource Functions,
with Particular Reference to Southeast Asia
S.E. Page and J.O. Rieley

Characteristics of Tropical Peat and its Possible Use as a Soil Ameliorant
B. Radjagukguk, Y. Nishizaki, Y. Yazawa and T. Yamaguchi