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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Moors"”.
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Peat exploitation on Thorne Moors. A case-study from the Yorkshire-Lincolnshire border 1626-1963, with integrated notes on Hatfield Moors
In its industrial heyday, Thorne Moors was the most extensive commercial peat operation in Britain. It became closely tied to nearby Hatfield Moors, and at both the methods of exploitation were essentially the same. Although much of Thorne Moors is situated in Yorkshire, the eastern extent lies in …
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Peat exploitation on Thorne Moors. A case-study from the Yorkshire-Lincolnshire border 1626-1963, with integrated notes on Hatfield Moors
In its industrial heyday, Thorne Moors was the most extensive commercial peat operation in Britain. It became closely tied to nearby Hatfield Moors, and at both the methods of exploitation were essentially the same. Although much of Thorne Moors is situated in Yorkshire, the eastern extent lies in …
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Phosphorus fate and management on the Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar ditch systems
… the ditch systems of the Somerset Levels and Moors, a listed Ramsar site (no. 914) under the Ramsar Convention and designated Special Protection Area (SPA) under the Habitat Regulation 2017, are elevated in nutrients with potential for total phosphorus to be above the current Common Standards …
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In Better Fettle: Improvement, Work and Rhetoric in the Transition to Environmental Farming in the North York Moors
… research amongst farmers in the North York Moors, and through broader historical and political analysis, I examine the importance and role of values in hard work and beneficent change in negotiated interactions between policy-makers, farmers and conservationists. Within the context of a …
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An investigation of the biogeochemical exchange of the macro plant nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen on rewetted peat soil on the Somerset Levels and Moors.
… Environment Agency. <br/>The Somerset Levels and Moors (SLMs) condition status is described, by Natural England and the Environmental Agency, as ‘unfavourable declining’ due to the phosphate levels being up to three times higher than the Common Standards Monitoring Guidance targets of 0.1 mg/l …
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Monitoring and modelling hydrological response and sediment yield in a North York Moors catchment : an assessment of predictive uncertainty in a coupled hydrological-sediment yield model
A fully distributed coupled hydrological-sediment yield model was developed. An assessment was made of the predictive uncertainty in the individual model predictions, as well as the uncertainty propagated from the primary hydrological model to the secondary sediment yield model, using the …
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BRACKEN (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) STAND CHARACTERISATION ON THE NORTH YORK MOORS: A STUDY OF THE RHIZOME AND FROND SYSTEM WITH REGARD TO A LARGE SCALE CONTROL PROGRAMME
Large-scale rhizome sampling on the North York Moors together with an assessment of published bracken sampling protocols concluded that small-scale sampling of the rhizome system is inadequate to describe upland bracken stands accurately. It is also concluded that the frond cannot be used as an …
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Restoration of lowland raised bogs damaged by peat extraction - with particular emphasis on Sphagnum regeneration.
… and blocking drains in a peat field at Thorne Moors, S. Yorks, was insufficient to prevent water-table instability. Experiments suggest this may severely inhibit Sphagnum growth. Lagoons may increase water storage on a bog surface and facilitate development of raised bog vegetation as floating …
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Modelling the spatial and temporal dynamics of upland birds in Scotland
… in abundance. Time series data from 287 grouse moors across the United Kingdom were analysed to investigate co-variation in these fluctuations. Results indicate high levels of synchrony between populations on neighbouring moors, with synchrony declining with increasing intermoor distance. At …
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Sarrionandia's Literary Exile: The Art of Fugue
… Moroak gara behelaino artean? in 2010 (Are We Moors in the Mist?). The main body of the dissertation consists of a literary analysis of the aforementioned works, grounded in theoretical concepts situated at the intersection of exile and literature. The concepts of counterpoint as coined by …
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Mechanical Design of a Self-Mooring Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
… when attached to the AUV nose. When the vehicle moors it releases the false nose, which floods the anchor making it heavy, sinking both the anchor and AUV to the seafloor. At the end of the mooring time the vehicle releases the anchor line and travels to the recovery location. A prototype vehicle …
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A Palaeoecological approach to understanding the impact of coastal changes in Late Holocene societies using the Isles of Scilly as a case study
… two main wetland areas of Scilly (one in Higher Moors and two in Lower Moors) with the potential to reveal changing patterns of vegetation reflecting intensity and type of land use. Detailed palaeoenvironmental interpretation has been provided by high resolution pollen analysis. These pollen …
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Hydrological responses to moorland land-use change
… this thesis, a headwater area in the North York Moors is used to examine the consequences of maintaining a land management regime which has received comparatively little observation in this context: controlled heather burning (muirburn). The effects of coniferous afforestation are also evaluated …
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Symbol and theme : a study of natural imagery in selected novels of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë
… realm. Physically, nature is perceived as the moors that surround Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange; symbolically, it is a realm of freedom from the human world of classification and differences. The thesis employs a Lacanian interpretation of the separation of Catherine and Heathcliff, …
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A high-resolution palaeoecological study of land use change during late prehistory on Exmoor
… on Exmoor: Great Buscombe, Spooners and Codsend Moors. Sequences are dated with the use of radiocarbon dates and recently identified tephra layers, enabling a better comparison between sequences from different sites on Exmoor. Additionally, a long-term climate reconstruction from a fourth site, …
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Mapping the countryside: information for policy and management
… Nature Conservation Agencies and the North York Moors National Park. The results highlighted a number of key problems in the organisational use of information and in the content and utility of the data available. These included the lack of an organisational culture of information use, imperfect …
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THE SPATIAL CHARACTERISATION OF TRANSITIONAL AREAS BETWEEN PLANT COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY FROM UPLAND BRITAIN
… in 4 locations: Dartmoor, Snowdonia, North York Moors and Barra, Western Isles of Scotland. Data analysis exposed the complexities of the transitional areas sampled but 'noise' often obscured the true characteristics. To overcome this a Species Ratio Index Model was devised to identify the …
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