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Patterns of DOC production in a peatland catchment

One of our longer-term projects involves measuring spatio-temporal variation in the production of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in a peatland catchment in the west of Scotland. We have an auto-sampler set up in a watercourse, and samples also being obtained from a number of paired experimental blocks. One half of each block has had a novel restoration treatment applied to it, and the project aims to assess the impact of…
July 28, 2014
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Strategic deer management planning

We have finally completed our analysis of all the data we have been gathering from 40 highland estates as part of a strategic deer management planning project. It has been really interesting bringing together all the various sources of data, including counts, culls, socio-economic data and estate management objectives. The analysis has involved quantifying spatio-temporal trends in Red deer abundance and comparing them with the objectives of each estate in…
May 15, 2014
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Historic rates of peatland erosion & recovery

One of the projects we are currently working on involves assessing historic rates of peatland erosion and recovery.  One of the techniques we use to look at this is comparing contemporary and historic imagery.   The older imagery comes from RCAHMS in Edinburgh, and goes as far back as the 1940’s – the RAF were heavily involved in gathering air photos for a number of decades after the war ended.  Over…
April 5, 2014