wise use of mires and peatlands - Peatland Ecology Research Group

256 INDEXBeauty 85Beaver/Beaver dam 26, 69, 85, 98Becker Paula 98Becker-Platen Jens-Dieter 180Bedclothes 57Bedding material 56, 152, 206Bedding plants 53Bedrock 25, 26, 81, 167, 206Behavioural patterns 48Belarus 33, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 63, 65, 69, 70, 85, 136, 205Belgium 53, 72, 86, 97, 184Belize 190Benin 188Bentham Jeremy 46Bequest functions 48, 90-91, 163Bermudas 190Berry 18, 60, 84Bertelsmann Walter 98Betula fen 215Betula humilis 27Betula pubescens 67, 158Betulaceae 37Bhutan 186Bies Marius 98Bio-centrism 46, 93, 114, 119, 139, 163Biochemical mechanisms/ processes 58, 81, 163Biodiversity 18, 19, 40, 44, 82, 87, 91, 99, 108, 109, 118, 163Biogenic waste 53, 54Biogeochemical links 25, 163Bio-geographic 30, 163Biographies 97Biological Diversity, Convention on See under Convention on Biological DiversityBiological inactivation 56Biological links 25Biological properties 35Biological transformation 56Biologically active substances 51, 58Biomass 35, 41, 60, 61, 75-77, 197-200, 136, 163Biomass carbon store 72-79, 192-203Biophysical equilibrium 163Bio-refinement 61Biosphere 47, 117, 163, 167Biosynthesis 41Biotechnological raw material 61Biotic 163Bird 44, 85Birmingham 59Bittern 87Bituminous coal 163 See under coalBivalvia 40Black bear 62