Ombrotrophic bog

Benoit JM, Fitzgerald WF, Damman AWH. 1998. The biogeochemistry of an ombrotrophic bog evaluation of use as an archive of atmospheric mercury deposition. Environ Res (Sect A) 78 118-133. 

Benoit, J. M., Fitzgerald, W. F. Damman, A. W. H. 1998. The biogeochemistry of an ombrotrophic bog Evaluation of use as an archive of atmospheric mercury deposition. Environmental Research, 78, 118-133. Engstrom, D.R. Swain, E.B. 1997. Recent declines in atmospheric mercury deposition in the upper Midwest. Environmental Science and Technology, 31, 960-967. Engstrom, D.R., Swain, E.B., Henning, T.A., Brigham, M.E. Brezonik, P.L. 1994. Atmospheric Mercury Deposition to Lakes and Watersheds - a Quantitative Reconstruction from Multiple Sediment Cores. In Environmental Chemistry of Lakes and Reservoirs. 33-66. 

In a unique study, Rapaport and Eisenreich [100] determined the time trends in accumulation of toxaphene in dated peat cores collected in 1982-1984 from ombrotrophic bogs (deriving nutrients solely from the atmosphere and isolated from ground water flow) in eastern North America. Three of their peat... 

Lafleur, P. M., Roulet, N. T., Bubier, J. L., Frolking, S., and Moore, T. R. (2003). Interannual variability in the peatland-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange at an ombrotrophic bog. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 17,1036. 

Pancost R. D., Baas M., van Geel B., and Sinninghe Damste J. S. (2002) Biomarkers as proxies for plant inputs to peats an example from a sub-boreal ombrotrophic bog. Org. Geochem. 33, 675-690. 

Hoosbeek M. R., van Breeman N., Berendse F., Brosvernier P., Vasander H., and Wallen B. (2001) Limited effect of increased atmospheric CO2 concentration on ombrotrophic bog vegetation. New Phytologist 150, 459-463. 

Hvatum OO, Bolviken B and Steinnes E (1983) Heavy metals in Norwegian ombrotrophic bogs. Ecol Bull 35 351-356. 

Ombrotrophic bogs are excellent archives of atmospheric Pb deposition because they receive Pb only from the air, and because they efficiently retain this metal despite the low pH of the waters (pH 4), the abundance of natural, complexforming organic acids and the seasonal variations in redox potential [48]. Bogs are probably the best continental archives of atmospheric Pb deposition and they are receiving increasing attention for this purpose [74,78,79,112,150-164]. With bogs commonly found in the temperate zone of both hemispheres. 

Mackenzie, S. (1989) The ecological impact of catchment liming on ombrotrophic bog communities. Unpublished report to the Nature Conservancy Council. 

Shotyk W. (1996) Natural and anthropogenic enrichments of As, Cu, Pb, Sb, and Zn in ombrotrophic versus miner-otrophic peat bog profiles, Jura Mountains, Switzerland. Water Air Soil Pollut. 90, 375-405. 

In Switzerland, Shotyk and co-workers (Shotyk et al, 1998) rebuilt the history of atmospheric Pb deposition over the last 12,000 years. They cored ombrotrophic peat bogs that are hydrologically isolated from the influence of local groundwaters and surfacewaters, and receive their inorganic... 

Shotyk W., Cheburkin A. K., Appleby P. G., Erankhauser A., and Kramers J. D. (1996) Two thousand years of atmospheric arsenic, antimony, and lead deposition recorded in an ombrotrophic peat bog profile. Jura Mountains, Switzerland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 145, El -E7. 

Damman A. W. H. (1978) Distribution and movement of elements in ombrotrophic peat bogs. Oikos 30, 480—495. 

Norton S. A., Evans G. C., andKahl J. S. (1997) Comparison of Hg and Pb fluxes to hummocks and hollows of ombrotrophic Big Heath Bog and to nearby Sargent Mt. Pond, Maine, USA. Water Air Soil Pollut. 100, 271-286. 

Benoit JM, Fitzgeral WF, Damman AWH. 1994. Historic atmospheric mercury deposition in the mid-continental United States as recorded in an ombrotrophic peat bog. In Watras CJ Huckabee JW eds. Mercury as a global pollutant. Ann Arbor Lewis Publishers, 187-202. 

Berset, J. D., Kuehne, P., and Shotyk, W., Concentrations and distributions of some polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycychc aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in an ombrotrophic peat bog prohle of Switzerland, Sci. Total Environ., 267, 67-85, 2001. 

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