Agaricus bisporus mushrooms are an economically important crop in Ireland and globally.
Currently black peat plays a key role in mushroom production and the industry is under …

Peatlands are a globally important carbon store, but peatland ecosystems from high
latitudes to the tropics are highly degraded due to increasingly intensive anthropogenic …

Peatlands are globally important stores of carbon (C) that contain a record of how their rates
of C accumulation have changed over time. Recently, near-surface peat has been used to …

The carbon (C) accumulation histories of peatlands are of great interest to scientists, land
users and policy makers. Because peatlands contain more than 500 billion tonnes of C, an …

Peatlands store one-third of the total global soil carbon (C.) despite covering only 3–4% of
the global land surface. Most peatlands are distributed in mid-high latitude regions and are …

We outline the principles of the natural capital approach to decision making and apply these
to the contemporary challenge of very significantly expanding woodlands as contribution to …

Many ground-nesting bird species including waders are of conservation concern across
Europe. Population declines of Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (hereafter Curlew), a …

Prescribed burning of vegetation is a land management approach that can be used to
prevent or reduce the risk of wildfires yet burns can escape and be an ignition source for …

In the Scottish uplands, prescribed burning of moorland vegetation is widely practised either
to boost gamebird numbers for recreational shooting or to improve livestock grazing. In …

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC), generated by fire, acts as a stable carbon deposit in natural
ecosystems and is widely used to reconstruct fire history. Fuel type and burning temperature …