3. Field Methods I: The Shallow Pit

In order to assess the condition of a peatland soil, it is necessary to take a closer look at the soil structure, i.e. the way the soil material is spatially organized. In order to investigate the soil structure, coring alone is not sufficient. This is why the shallow pit method is presented in this video. The first step implies digging a pit and extracting a soil monolith that will be used for the soil description. This video series about peatlands and peatland soils was produced as part of a collaboration between project WIKIMoooS (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and project MoorIS – A Peatland Information System for Lower Saxony (LBEG). These projects were financed by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) and the ERDF fund of the European Union, respectively. The series consists of two informational videos on peatlands and their soils and eight tutorials that present methods for investigating peatland soils in the field. This is the first tutorial video. Projekt WIKIMooS WIKIMooS – Wissens- & KartierungsIndikatorenset MoorSubstrate: https://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/departments/dntw/bodenkstandortl/forschung/projekte_abgeschlossen/wikimoos/wikimoos MoorIS – Zentrale Informationen zu den niedersächsischen Mooren: https://www.mooris-niedersachsen.de