The farming of sphagnum and of aquatic and semi-aquatic plants for peatland restoration

摘要

The cultivation of Sphagnum and aquatic and semi-aquatics plants in shallow basins could allow the rapid production of large quantities of material necessary for peatlands restoration.In 2004 and 2006,basins were established in old trenches of a peatland which had been exploited by the manual block-cut method in eastern Canada (New-Brunswick) in the 1940s-1960s.The objective of the farming of Sphagnum is to determine how environmental and biological parameters (such as fertilisation treatment and the presence of vascular plants) may promote the rapid development of a Sphagnum biomass.For the cultivation of aquatic and semi-aquatics plants,different approaches are being tested in wet peat-based basins.