Browsing by Subject "blanket bog"
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Habitat selection by grazing animals in heterogeneous environments: the case of hill sheep in western ireland
(Royal Irish Academy, 2012-01-01)Uplands and peatlands are of high conservation importance and, while grazing animals are a key management tool for conservation, grazing-related damage can easily occur. Damage to European uplands is most notable in Britain ... -
Holocene vegetation dynamics, landscape change and human impact in western Ireland as revealed by multidisciplinary, palaeoecological investigations of peat deposits and bog-pine in lowland Connemara
(MDPI, 2021-11-15)Palaeoecological investigations, involving pollen analysis, dendrochronology, and radiocarbon dating of bog-pine, provide the basis for reconstruction of vegetation dynamics, landscape development, and human impact in two ... -
Proposing an efficient indicator of grazer distribution on heterogeneous hill vegetation
(Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 2009-12-20)Irish and UK uplands and peatlands are of international importance but are under threat from several factors, including heavy grazing pressure. Sheep preferentially graze patches of acid grassland with short dense swards, ... -
Resource selection by hill sheep: direct flock observations versus gps tracking
(Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 2010-12-10)Uplands and peatlands are of international ecological importance and heavy grazing pressure has been implicated in a decline in their condition. Therefore, a better understanding of grazer behaviour could aid the design ... -
Trends, over 14 years, in the ground cover on an unimproved western hill grazed by sheep, and associated trends in animal performance
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016-01-01)The frequency of individual plant species at ground level and the species composition of the unimproved vegetation on a western hill farm, stocked with Scottish Blackface sheep, were monitored from 1995 to 2008. Performance ...