Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 925: A review of the influence of ombrotrophic peat depth on the successful restoration of bog habitat.
- Submitting institution
-
University of East London
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 31
- Type
- N - Research report for external body
- DOI
-
-
- Commissioning body
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Month
- -
- Year
- 2016
- URL
-
https://www.nature.scot/sites/default/files/Publication%202016%20-%20SNH%20Commissioned%20Report%20925%20-%20A%20review%20of%20the%20influence%20of%20ombrotrophic%20peat%20depth%20on%20the%20successful%20restoration%20of%20bog%20habitat.pdf
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
1
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Originality: This is the first systematic review of evidence associated with the global commercial peat industry's use of "an average minimum peat depth of 0.5 m" as the standard planning threshold for cessation of extraction and initiation of restoration. Rigour: A systematic review of evidence was undertaken, critically assessing the origins of, and support for, such a threshold. Significance: In establishing that no evidence supports this threshold, supporting instead a minimum residual depth of 1.8 m, the report enables planning authorities to require cessation of working much sooner than currently prevails. Lindsay wrote some 80% of the text.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -