dc.contributor.author | Finnegan, Joanne | |
dc.contributor.author | Regan, John T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fenton, Owen | |
dc.contributor.author | Lanigan, Gary J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Brennan, Raymond B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-21T12:00:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-21T12:00:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-09-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Finnegan, J., Regan, J.T., Fenton, O., Lanigan, G.J., Brennan, R.B., Healy, M.G. (2014) 'The short-term effects of management changes on watertable position and nutrients in shallow groundwater in a harvested peatland forest'. Journal Of Environmental Management, 142 :46-52. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0301-4797 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10379/4370 | |
dc.description | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Management changes such as drainage, fertilisation, afforestation and harvesting (clearfelling) of forested peatlands influence watertable (WT) position and groundwater concentrations of nutrients. This study investigated the impact of clearfelling of a peatland forest on WT and nutrient concentrations. Three areas were examined: (1) a regenerated riparian peatland buffer (RB) clearfelled four years prior to the present study (2) a recently clearfelled coniferous forest (CF) and (3) a standing, mature coniferous forest (SF), on which no harvesting took place. The WT remained consistently below 0.3 m during the pre-clearfelling period. Results showed there was an almost immediate rise in the WT after clearfelling and a rise to 0.15 m below ground level (bgl) within 10 months of clearfelling. Clearfelling of the forest increased dissolved reactive phosphorus concentrations (from an average of 28 to 230 microgrammes L-1) in the shallow groundwater, likely caused by leaching from degrading brash mats. | en_US |
dc.format | application/MSWord | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal Of Environmental Management | en |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/ | |
dc.subject | Forestry | en_US |
dc.subject | Peat | en_US |
dc.subject | Clearfelling | en_US |
dc.subject | Watertable | en_US |
dc.subject | Groundwater | en_US |
dc.subject | Nutrients | en_US |
dc.title | The short-term effects of management changes on watertable position and nutrients in shallow groundwater in a harvested peatland forest | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2014-05-08T07:46:01Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.04.008 | |
dc.local.publishedsource | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.04.008 | en_US |
dc.description.peer-reviewed | peer-reviewed | |
dc.contributor.funder | |~|Environmental Protection Agency|~| | |
dc.internal.rssid | 6287506 | |
dc.local.contact | Mark Healy, Dept. Of Civil Engineering, Room E210, Civil Engineering Building, Nui Galway. 5364 Email: mark.healy@nuigalway.ie | |
dc.local.copyrightchecked | Yes | |
dc.local.version | ACCEPTED | |
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