Land use(s)
- Upland
- Blanket bog grouse moor managed (burning vs cutting or unmanaged). Plot-/catchment-scale assessments on ecosystem services and soil functioning.
Successes / outcomes
- Policy debates (Natural England/Defra; Westminster) on blanket bog management, burning vs alternatives (e.g. cutting).
- Positive and negative impacts on various ecosystem services (carbon storage, climate regulation, biodiversity and water quality).
Methods / issues being explored
- Whole system approach
- Solutions to reduce erosion and land degradation
- Rewetting of peatlands
- Increased diversity of sward / crops
- Soil tillage and management
Data being collected on
- Soil health
- Biodiversity
- Water runoff / flooding
- Water quality
- Carbon storage
- Carbon/peat accumulation
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Carbon budgets
- Greenhouse gas budgets
Methods of data collection
- Visual assessments
- Field surveys
- Sensors
- University/research department laboratories
Types of organisation involved
- Farmers
- Academics
- Advisory Services
- Upland user groups
- Water industry
- Policymakers
Outreach
- Advisory Group meetings
- Conferences; workshops
- Practitioner/land user group document input
- Evidence reviews
- Site visits
- Website
- One-to-one contact
- Events/festivals
- Social media
Networks this organisation / initiative is involved in
- BES Peatland Group
Website:
peatland-es-uk.york.ac.uk
Contact:
Andreas Heinemeyer
Postcode:
HG3 5TA
Other organisations involved:
- Yorkshire Water
- United Utilities
- Natural England
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership
- Moorland Association
- British Association for Shooting and Conservation Heather Trust
- Mossdale Estate
- Middlesmoor Estate
- Whitendale farm
Land use type:
-
Upland
