Peat properties from the Flow Country, Scotland, 2020, following wildfire in 2019

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• Last updated: 29 June 2024
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Summary

Location of peat cores and peat properties including moisture, bulk density, ash and organic matter content for short cores (50 cm) collected 10 month post-fire in high, medium and low severity areas within a drained and a near natural area in the footprint of a severe wildfire that impacted >6500 ha of blanket bog and wet heath in the Flow Country of Northern Scotland. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/31d3b90b-ca4d-41db-bf29-c9f7a426a0cc

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-02-27
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Fernandez-Garcia, P., Andersen, R., Schmidt, R., Gaffney, P.P.J., Gilbert, P. , Large, D.J., Marshall, C., Mayor, D., Pickard, A., Williamson, B. (2021). Peat properties from the Flow Country, Scotland, 2020, following wildfire in 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/31d3b90b-ca4d-41db-bf29-c9f7a426a0cc
• Harvest GUID: 31d3b90b-ca4d-41db-bf29-c9f7a426a0cc
• Extent: Latitude: 58.607° to 58.325°
• Extent: Longitude: -4.194° to -3.654°
• Dataset reference date: 2021-12-03 (publication)
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• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
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