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Glossary of Terms - Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland
Calcicole Plants - Plants which grow best on calcareous soils. Callows - Areas of fen peat periodically inundated by floodwater. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - A naturally occurring gas which is also ... of the presence of human and animal faeces in waters. Fauna - Animals. Fen - An area of waterlogged peat which, unlike bog, is alkaline or only slightly acid. Fiscal Instrument - A ...
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Cutover & Cutaway Bogs -
Thick layers of acid and/or alkaline peat Thick layers of acid and/or alkaline peat Thick layers of acid and/or alkaline peat Thin or thick layers of fen peat, shell marl ... fields with drains every 15m. Shallow powdery peat, underlying soil visible in places. Slean Hand Cut Sausage Peat Cut Hopper Machine Cut Sod Peat Cut Milled Peat Extraction Registered Charity Number CHY6829 All ...
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IPCC information sheets - Pollardstown Fen
Marl was deposited whenever open areas of water existed, giving rise to alternating layers of marl and fen peat. After several thousand years the original lake became completely filled with fen peat and the area was covered with swamp and fen vegetation, as you ...
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Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services (Glossary)
F fen - A type of wetland that accumulates peat deposits. Fens are less acidic than bogs ... marsh - A type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation. Marshes may ... is dominated by woody vegetation and does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits. Swamps may be fresh water or saltwater and tidal or ...
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Restoration Round-up (Do or Die)
Holme Fen and Woodwalton Fen National Nature Reserves. A feasibility study into hydrological and other factors is currently underway ... Barratt homes), including: 160 hectares (ha) on ex-arable land at Lakenheath Fen (Suffolk), 54 ha on old peat workings at Ham Wall (Somerset), 100 ha at Malltraeth Marsh (Anglesey) and 20 ...
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EMS - Environmental Entomology - Invertebrate Surveys and Conservation - Bird and Insect Databases
(Recorder 1994); no change (Recorder 1997) possibly extinct and only ever recorded from Catfield Fen, Norfolk (Recorder 1994); no change (Recorder 1997) RDB1 (Ball 1986); RDB1 (Hyman & Parsons 1992); RDB1 ... 1997) none none none none 949 Graphoderus zonatus (Hoppe 1795) Dytiscidae water beetle in open peat pools (Recorder 1994) only from Woolmer Bog in Hampshire, found in 1953 by S.E ...
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Irish Peatland Conservation Council - Fen Campaign
Irish Peatland Conservation Council - Fen Campaign Irish Peatland Conservation Council Comhairle Chaomhnaithe Phortaigh na hÉireann ACTION FOR BOGS & WILDLIFE News & ... beds were lined with thick plastic, before being infilled with a mixture of specially formulated peat-free compost donated by FLORALIVE. A pond feature was dug in one of the beds ...
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Irish Peatland Conservation Council - Fen Campaign
The peat continued to accumulate and filled the lake basin completely to form a fen. This is an alkaline peatland fed by mineral-rich ... Turf Board, set up 10 peat production works. These delivered machine-cut turf and milled peat to electricity-generating power stations, milled peat to briquette factories and moss peat to horticulturalists. Exploring the ...
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Lowland Wetland
Fen, on the other hand, is also ... fen, though individual areas, such as the Norfolk Broads may be large (3,000 ha). Lowland bogs may be affected by peat ... . Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) targets to shift UK horticulture onto peat alternatives, and updated forestry policy, are expected to reduce some ...
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