Environmental change in moorland landscapes

Holden, Joseph; Shotbolt, L.; Bonn, Aletta; Burt, T. P.; Chapman, P. J.; Dougill, Andrew J.; Fraser, Evan D. G.; Hubacek, Klaus; Irvine, Brian; Kirkby, M. J.; Reed, Mark; Prell, Christina; Stagl, Sigrid; Stringer, Lindsay C.; Turner, Andy; Worrall, Fred

doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.01.003

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“…These areas are of significant cultural, aesthetic and economic value to 30 the UK (Holden et al 2007) and are internationally important biogeographically, given their rare 31 occurrence outside of the British and Irish Isles (Thompson et al 1995). Heathlands are semi-natural 32 habitats which require management to prevent vegetative succession away from heather dominance.…”

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Calluna vulgaris canopy height and blanket peat CO2 flux: Implications for management

Dixon

Worrall

Rowson

et al. 2015

Ecological Engineering

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8This study seeks to address the proposition that the canopy height of Calluna vulgaris is a measure of 9 the CO2 balance of heathlands on ombrotrophic peatlands and thus can be used as an objective tool to 10 define when to manage (typically by prescribed burning) heathlands. To test this idea a monthly dataset 11 of CO2 flux and associated environmental variables was gathered from three localities in the South 12Pennines and the Peak District National Park of northern England between 2007 and 2010, covering a 13 range of C. vulgaris canopy heights. It was found that both gross fluxes of CO2 (ecosystem respiration 14 and photosynthesis) were modelled best by models incorporating a dependence on canopy height. 15

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Calluna vulgaris canopy height and blanket peat CO2 flux: Implications for management

Dixon

Worrall

Rowson

et al. 2015

Ecological Engineering

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“…This loss of carbon has potentially huge implications for water quality and the carbon storage capabilities of moorlands. But it is unclear at this stage how much of this carbon loss is due to land management and particularly rotational burning (Holden et al 2007). At the same time the use of uplands for recreation can bring the public into conflict with farmers and gamekeepers when walkers (and especially those with dogs) disturb sheep during lambing or grouse during the nesting season (Curry In press).…”

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“…While grouse moor owners, private forestry and farmers manage uplands to maximise production this can bring them into conflict with other rights holders who want to manage uplands to maximise for water quality, carbon or conservation. It is argued that land management for production can lead to water discolouration, water acidification, carbon loss and reduced biodiversity although the evidence is not clear cut (Helliwell et al 2001;Worral et al 2006;Holden et al 2007;Reed et al In press). This suggests that it may not possible to manage uplands to maximise for all the ecosystem services.…”

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Property rights in UK uplands and the implications for policy and management

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Ecological Economics

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Understanding the property rights regimes that govern resource management in uplands is key to developing environmental policy that supports sustainable rural livelihoods and encourages the delivery of important ecosystem services in the face of change. The UK uplands are important for the range of ecosystem services they provide, from biodiversity, recreation and carbon storage, to the provision of food, fibre and water, as well as flood prevention. Upland environments are subject to a complicated system of property rights regimes. While land might be in private ownership, rights of withdrawal, access and management of different resources on that land may be afforded to different stakeholders. In many areas this can result in private property regimes, common property regimes and state control overlapping as they seek to manage resources in the same landscape for different objectives, sometimes leading to conflict between the different rights holders. At the same time climate change, economic development and changes to agricultural and other policy drivers means that the relative importance of different ecosystems services is changing along with the balance of power between different stakeholders. This research explores the property regimes in three upland areas: the Peak District National Park, the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the uplands of Dumphries and Galloway. Using data from a range of qualitative and quantitative interviews and participant observation this paper examines the extent to which the current property regimes lead to conflict, influence decisions about land management for different ecosystem services, and act as a barrier to sustainable management. Recommendations are made for national policy, and the wider implications are explored for future environmental policy development under complex tenure regimes.

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“…Vegetation burning in patches across the landscape is undertaken on upland catchments in Great Britain to increase grouse populations for gun sports and to support grazing conditions ). Typical prescribed burning frequencies for upland environments in Great Britain are between once every 7 and 25 years (Holden et al, 2007). In the food security scenario we increased the frequency to once every 5 years.…”

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Prediction of blanket peat erosion across Great Britain under environmental change

Holden

Irvine

2015

Climatic Change

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A recently developed fluvial erosion model for blanket peatlands, PESERA-PEAT, was applied at ten sites across Great Britain to predict the response of blanket peat erosion to environmental change. Climate change to 2099 was derived from seven UKCP09 future projections and the UK Met Office's historical dataset. Land management scenarios were established based on outputs from earlier published investigations. Modelling results suggested that as climate changes, the response of blanket peat erosion will be spatially very variable across Great Britain. Both relative changes and absolute values of sediment yield were predicted to be higher in southern and eastern areas than in western and northern parts of Great Britain, peaking in the North York Moors of eastern England. Areas with high precipitation and low temperature were predicted to have low relative erosion changes and absolute sediment yield. The model suggested that summer desiccation may become more important for blanket peat erosion under future climate change, and that temperature was more dominant than precipitation in controlling long-term blanket peat erosion change. However, in the North York Moors, precipitation appeared to be more dominant in driving long-term erosion change. Land management measures were shown to provide a means to mitigate against the impacts of climate change on blanket peat erosion.

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Environmental change in moorland landscapes

Cited by 231 publications

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Calluna vulgaris canopy height and blanket peat CO2 flux: Implications for management

Calluna vulgaris canopy height and blanket peat CO2 flux: Implications for management

Property rights in UK uplands and the implications for policy and management

Prediction of blanket peat erosion across Great Britain under environmental change

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