Environmental effects of drainage, drain-blocking and prescribed vegetation burning in UK upland peatlands

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-79

  Ramchunder, S J ^a   Brown, L E ^a   Holden, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drain blocking; Heather burning; Macroinvertebrates; Moorland; Peat drainage

Indexed keywords

BURNING; DRAINAGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HYDROLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PEATLAND; RIVER BASIN; VEGETATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CALLUNA;

EID: 67649407522     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133309105245     Document Type: Review

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