Sentences with phrase «lowland bogs»

Focus: The battle for Britain's bogs — Lowland bogs are the last remnants of an ancient landscape.

Raised lowland bogs have been destroyed on a large scale throughout Europe.

It adds to a flurry of concern about Britain's lowland bogs this autumn.

The deal covers most of England's remaining large raised lowland bogs, including Thorne Moors and neighbouring Hatfield Chase, Wedholme Flow in Cumbria and bogs in the Somerset levels.

While the highland bogs may have been created by early farmers cutting down trees and burning the grasses, lowland bogs formed naturally.

There are two main types of peat bog in Britain: the blanket bogs of upland moors, and the raised lowland bogs that form large peat mounds in waterlogged river valleys.

Raised lowland bogs contain the mummified remains of everything from plants, pollens and airborne pollutants to archaeological remains and human bodies, all filed in layers, by date.

Fisons owned some 3250 hectares of raised lowland bog.

Not exact matches

Scottish researchers have shown that airborne pollution is causing nitrogen to accumulate in the tissues of plants growing in threatened habitats such as sphagnum bogs, lowland heaths and heather moors.

«We contest the commission's data about the extent of lowland raised bog ecosystems, not least because in Scotland many of the blanket bogs have the same characteristics,» says Stockdale.

The future of Britain's raised lowland peat bogs appears to lie in the hands of the nation's gardeners.

«The history of all this is pretty shabby but we had to do the best deal we could to save the bogs,» says Brian Johnson, coordinator of English Nature's lowland peat project.

(«From the German for «bog», it's a lowland covered wholly or partially with water.»