HYDROLOGICAL REGIME OF PEAT DEPOSITS OF DIFFERENT CATEGORY OF DISORDER
The article outlines the main problems of peatlands as a result of the influence anthropogenic factors. Research results of disturbed peatlands in Belarus as a result of their retirement from industrial exploitation, also an ineffective use of these areas in agriculture, forestry and water sectors were analyzed. The hydrological regime (mean monthly and mean annual values of groundwater levels and the amplitude of their oscillations) of natural, disturbed and restored areas of peatlands was analyzed. The results of the analysis of the average annual values of the GWL and the amplitude of oscillations in the areas of peatlands of different categories of disturbance are presented, also after ecological rehabilitation. The optimal and critical mean annual values of the GWL and the amplitude of the oscillations for the growth of mire phytocenoses were identified.