The Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG), based in Université Laval (Québec City), has been conducting research on peatland management practices since 1992. Over the years, in partnership with the peat industry, the research group has developed a peatland restoration method, called the Moss Layer Transfer Technique (MLTT)1, for peatlands closed after peat extraction. While the method was first tested and applied to restore bogs in Eastern Canada, it is now being transferred and adapted to other types of environments, locations and climates. This topic is one of interest within the PERG’s NSERC Collaborative R&D Grant (2013-2018) “Farm, restore and model: responsible management of peatlands for a sustainable Canadian horticultural peat industry”.
This document presents a summary of the research that began May 2015 within the CRD and the two addendums, as the projects are often intertwined and incorporated into larger research projects. The “Fact Sheet” format (section 3) aims at providing easily accessible and comprehensible information. As some of the projects are part of graduate students’ research projects, preliminary results are sometimes provided. In these cases, additional results will be available in the student’s thesis or scientific publications.