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Influence of Exploitation of Peatland on Quantity and Quality of Organic Matter in Histosol

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Peatlands have been identified as hotspots in the global carbon cycle because exploitation has brought them from carbon sequestration sites to CO2 emitting sites. The aim of this paper is to analyse how the changed hydrological situation after the continuous drainage and tillage as well as peat body excavation affected the emission of CO2-C and the quantity and quality of organic matter in Histosol.

Peatland Ždralovac is situated in two depressions in Livno’s karst field in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Variation of levels of water table in peatland Ždralovac in period 2011–2014 was monitored in system of piezometers by separated hydrological zones depend of way of use peatland. In the average year with a dry summer period (2012), in northern „virgin“ non-drained part Veliki Ždralovac with a deep Histosol > 100 cm, CO2-C emissions was 5.210 kg ha−1 a−1 according by Renger et al. 2002. The adjacent belt shallowly drained peatland to remove the surface layer of peat, with a deep Histosol > 100 cm too, has a higher rate of CO2-C emissions 5.765 kg ha−1a−1. The Histosol in southern Mali Ždralovac, which is converted for agricultural production and with reduced depth to only 20 cm, has a CO2-C emission rate of 2.200 kg ha−1 a−1.

Exploited peatland compared with native condition differ in particular in the quantity and quality of soil organic matter and morphology of surface horizon in Histosol. With only 31–43% organic matter, shallow Histosol converted for agricultural production is classified as organic soil and not as peat, with a characteristic muck layer formed after drainage in combination with tillage.

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    Mirza Tvica & Hamdija Čivić

  2. Faculty of Agriculture, University Istočno Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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    Jordana Ninkov & Jovica Vasin

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Tvica, M., Čivić, H., Tunguz, V., Ninkov, J., Vasin, J. (2022). Influence of Exploitation of Peatland on Quantity and Quality of Organic Matter in Histosol. In: Brka, M., et al. 10th Central European Congress on Food. CE-Food 2020. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04797-8_37

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