The classification of substrates compounding the peat soils of mires is crucial for conservation measures. In mires along the Baker and Pascua Basins (Aysén-Chile) a classification for substrates was done,. It was conceptually and graphically inspired by the German Soil Mapping Directions (A.G. Boden, 2005) and in the Description of Mire Substrates realized by Meier-Uhlherr, R., Schulz, C. and Luthardt, V. (2011) from the Eberswalde-University of Applied Sciences for Sustainable Development. As in those works, this sheets are oriented to the praxis and field work dealing with mires, portraying the ideal, typical and essential ecological characteristics of the different substrate types that can be found in a mire. These will depend on the hydrogeomorphic and ecologic type of mire. The hydrogeomorphic type depends on the relieve and hydrology that allowed a water saturated environment to form in the landscape. The ecological type or ecotype will depend on the vegetation growing and accumulating as peat year after year, giving place to a mire, which could have changed and evolved through the time. Related to that, for mires in Aysén the classification exposed is available here.
