Rehabilitation of industrial cutaway Atlantic blanket bog in County Mayo, North-West Ireland

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 21-35

  Farrell, C A ^a   Doyle, G J ^b  

^a Research Centre   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Atlantic blanket bog; Cutaways; Natural colonisation; Peat mining; Peatland restoration; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

BLANKET BOG; MINING; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; REWETTING;

IRELAND;

BIKINIA LE-TESTUI; DOMINGOA HAEMATOCHILA; JUNCUS; JUNCUS EFFUSUS; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 0038363978     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022097203946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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