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Paterson, L., R. A. Sanderson, and S. P. Rushton. "The effects of grazing on spider assemblages in upland heather moorland." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science 2005 (2005): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752756200009765.

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Invertebrates are of particular interest on heather moorlands because of their rapid response to small scale habitat changes. Spiders constitute a variable proportion of the diet of heather moorland bird, mammal and reptile species. Furthermore, spiders may be an important indicator of habitat change resulting from management practices, especially those that exert a large- scale spatial impact, e.g. grazing. The component families and species of spider assemblages indicate, through their differing preference for web attachments and web structure, the vegetation density, height and structure (Marc et al., 1999). This effect may be especially pronounced where continued grazing at a particular stocking rate results in characteristic patterns in the vegetation structure. Species and family specific hunting strategies determine prey type and so the presence of some spider species may indicate the presence of a preferred prey species. This study aims to investigate the effect of grazing with sheep alone or in combination with cattle grazing on an upland heather moorland in the north of England.

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Kerslake, J. E., L. E. B. Kruuk, S. E. Hartley, and S. J. Woodin. "Winter moth (Operophtera brumata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)) outbreaks on Scottish heather moorlands: effects of host plant and parasitoids on larval survival and development." Bulletin of Entomological Research 86, no. 2 (April 1996): 155–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007485300052391.

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AbstractOutbreaks of the winter moth, Operophtera brumata Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), have recently become widespread on heather moorlands in northeast Scotland. These outbreaks represent remarkable phenomena given the poor nutritional quality of the dominant moorland host plant Calluna vulgaris (Linnaeus) Hull (Ericaceae). Winter moth performance on C. vulgaris was compared with that on the other available moorland host plant, Vaccinium myrtillus (Linnaeus) (Ericaceae), and parasitism levels were measured in two moorland outbreak populations. Larval densities in the field were generally higher on Calluna than on Vaccinium. However, larvae showed better survival, more rapid development and greater pupal weights on Vaccinium than on Calluna. Feeding trials indicated that Vaccinium was more digestible than Calluna. No evidence of parasitism was found in a high-altitude moorland winter moth outbreak population from mainland Scotland, but the parasitoid Phobocampe neglecta (Holmgren) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) was present in 27% of larvae from a lower-altitude moorland outbreak on Orkney. The results indicate that the presence of Vaccinium and the opportunity to escape from parasitism may facilitate O. brumata outbreak formation in high-altitude moorland sites. However, neither factor can provide a full explanation for the present phenomenon.

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Critchley, C. N. R., H. F. Adamson, and J. J. Hyslop. "Short-term impact of sheep and cattle grazing on upland wet heath vegetation." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science 2005 (2005): 230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752756200011418.

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The UK Biodiversity Action Plan identifies upland heath and blanket bog as priorities for conservation. Heavy grazing by livestock has damaged these habitats in many parts of the UK. Agri-environment schemes have partly addressed the problem by encouraging farmers to reduce sheep stocking levels on degraded moorland. This can prevent further loss of dwarf shrub cover, but the increased biomass of moorland grasses can inhibit regeneration of dwarf shrubs and other desirable species. The objectives of this system-scale study are to assess the impact on plant species composition and animal performance, of sheep-only and mixed grazing regimes with both cattle and sheep on degraded wet heath vegetation. It is being carried out as part of a wider project to determine environmentally sustainable and economically viable grazing systems for heather moorland.

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Edmondson, J. L., J. A. Carroll, E. A. C. Price, and S. J. M. Caporn. "Bio-indicators of nitrogen pollution in heather moorland." Science of The Total Environment 408, no. 24 (November 2010): 6202–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.060.

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Hulbert, I. A. R., and B. Boag. "The potential role of habitat on intestinal helminths of mountain hares, Lepus timidus." Journal of Helminthology 75, no. 4 (December 2001): 345–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x0100052x.

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Over the last century in the uplands of Scotland, the extent of heather moorland which supports high densities of mountain hares Lepus timidus has diminished and has gradually been replaced by large-scale commercial forestry plantations or expanding natural woodlands. The potential impact of such a change in land use on host–parasite interactions was investigated by comparing the intensity and prevalence of infection of hares by parasites in two separate habitats: a large hare-fenced young forestry plantation and the adjacent open moorland. Carcasses were collected in November 1990 from within both habitats and after the woodland had been enclosed for nine months. Age, sex, fatness (kidney fat index) and degree of infection of hares were noted. Two parasites were recorded: the nematode Trichostrongylus retortaeformis and the cestode Mosgovoyia pectinata. Clear differences in the intensity of infection of adults occupying the different habitats had occurred in the nine months since woodland enclosure. Adult mountain hares in the woodland had levels of infections approaching four times that observed in hares occupying the open moorland and although not significant, the prevalence of infection was greater in hosts inhabiting the woodland than the open moorland. It is suggested that the parasite–host relationship differs between the two habitats and as heather-dominated moorland landscapes become more fragmented with the increasing establishment of woodlands, the impact of parasites on the life history strategies of mountain hares needs to be reconsidered.

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Whitelaw, C., and A. H. Kirkpatrick. "Heather moorland loss on the Northern Islands of Orkney." Botanical Journal of Scotland 49, no. 1 (January 1997): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03746609708684852.

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White, B., and R. Wadsworth. "A bioeconomic model of heather moorland management and conservation." Ecological Economics 9, no. 2 (February 1994): 167–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0921-8009(94)90098-1.

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Whitehead, Siân C., and David Baines. "Moorland vegetation responses following prescribed burning on blanket peat." International Journal of Wildland Fire 27, no. 10 (2018): 658. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf18019.

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Moorlands provide several key ecosystem services, as well as supporting shooting of red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica Latham). Prescribed burning of heather is an integral aspect of grouse-moor management but is sometimes presented as ecologically damaging. However, a long-term burning experiment at Moor House National Nature Reserve, North Pennines, northern England, showed that more frequent burning actually increased the cover of peat-building species such as Sphagnum mosses and cotton grass (Eriophorum vaginatum L.). Here we compare those findings with data from another deep-peat site in the North Pennines, but one that is actively managed as a grouse moor. We describe post-fire vegetation change using aerial images to construct a time-series of burns. Comparable with the Moor House study, we found highest levels of Sphagnum and Eriophorum cover on fires last burned within 3–10 years, whereas heather (Calluna vulgaris L.) cover, that of other mosses, and overall vegetation height all increased in a linear manner over time since burning. These results from an actively managed grouse moor subject to prescribed burning demonstrate that the cover and species richness of Sphagnum, a key peat-forming group, correlated with reduced dominance of tall heather, can benefit from a post-burn period of up to 10 years.

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Welch, David, and David Scott. "Response of moorland vegetation to 20 years of conservation management in two Cairngorm glens." British & Irish Botany 1, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 20–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.33928/bib.2019.01.020.

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The response of vegetation to a large reduction in red deer numbers was assessed over a 20 year period in two contrasting glens in the Eastern Cairngorms. Monitoring was done in spring when the annual maximum herbivore impact accumulates on the heather. We estimated deer presence from pellet-group counts, and for heather we measured cover, height and shoot browsing. Deer numbers declined earlier in Glen Derry, and correspondingly heather height increased sooner. Trends in Glen Lui were related to plot wetness and distance from places where the deer were fed in winter; dry plots received much heavier usage from deer and rabbits initially, keeping the heather short and cover stable, whereas on wet plots usage was much lower and heather increased both in cover and height. Subsequently, as deer densities fell, the Lui heather thrived, and by 2013 heather height on dry plots had surpassed height on wet plots. Colonisation by pine saplings was very patchy, being virtually confined to plots within 50 m of mature trees and having heather swards less than 25 cm tall. Despite deer numbers falling, saplings still suffered browsing by black grouse, lagomorphs and voles. Annual increments were greatest on dry plots in Glen Lui. However, we estimate that another eight years of negligible deer numbers are needed for the present sapling crop to become safe from deer damage. A limited regime of burning near mature pines may assist regeneration.

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Salt, C. A., and R. W. Mayes. "Plant Uptake of Radiocaesium on Heather Moorland Grazed by Sheep." Journal of Applied Ecology 30, no. 2 (1993): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2404625.

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Thirgood, Simon J., Stephen M. Redpath, and Isla M. Graham. "What determines the foraging distribution of raptors on heather moorland?" Oikos 100, no. 1 (January 2003): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11642.x.

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Ascoli, Davide, Raffaella Marzano, and Giovanni Bovio. "Experimental fires for heather moorland management in north-western Italy." Forest Ecology and Management 234 (November 2006): S258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2006.08.287.

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Farage, Peter, Andrew Ball, Terry J. McGenity, Corinne Whitby, and Jules Pretty. "Burning management and carbon sequestration of upland heather moorland in the UK." Soil Research 47, no. 4 (2009): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr08095.

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The use of fire in land management has come under increasing scrutiny with regard to its potential effects on sustainability and climate change. Moorlands in the United Kingdom have traditionally used rotational burning of the heather (Calluna vulgaris) to improve the grazing and habitat, especially for grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus). However, these ecosystems overlie carbon-rich soils and concerns have been raised about the merits of this practice. In order to assess the impact of rotational burning on carbon balance, an investigation was undertaken on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales, UK. This showed that the quantity of carbon stored above ground in heather biomass ranged from 600 to 1325 g C/m2 (typical for UK upland heaths). However, the national UK carbon inventory assumes 200 g C/m2, thereby appearing to underestimate considerably the importance of these habitats for carbon storage above ground. Analysis of 2 burns in subsequent years showed that 16 ± 4% and 24 ± 5% (± s.e.) of the above-ground material was consumed in the fires, resulting in the direct release of 103 ± 22 and 201 ± 62 g/m2 of carbon, respectively. Indirect carbon losses, which other studies have shown to be primarily due to erosion, were estimated to release another 5–21 g C/m2.year. The significance of other major greenhouse gas fluxes was assessed for the whole system using published parameters and models. We show that, over the burning cycle of 15–20 years, losses of carbon from burning are <10% of the total losses of carbon from the system, implying that careful burning management at this site does not have a major detrimental effect on the carbon budget, which for this moor lies within the range of an annual net loss of 34 g C/m2.year to a net uptake of 146 g C/m2.year.

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Hewson, R. "Grazing Preferences of Mountain Hares on Heather Moorland and Hill Pastures." Journal of Applied Ecology 26, no. 1 (April 1989): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2403646.

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Keith, Aidan M., René van der Wal, Rob W. Brooker, Graham H. R. Osler, Stephen J. Chapman, and David F. R. P. Burslem. "Birch invasion of heather moorland increases nematode diversity and trophic complexity." Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, no. 12 (December 2006): 3421–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.05.013.

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Pakeman, Robin J., and Andrew J. Nolan. "Setting sustainable grazing levels for heather moorland: a multi-site analysis." Journal of Applied Ecology 46, no. 2 (April 2009): 363–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01603.x.

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Liepert, C., S. M. Gardner, and S. Rees. "Managing heather moorland: impacts of burning and cutting on Calluna regeneration." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 36, no. 3 (January 1993): 283–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640569308711947.

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PALMER, S. C. F., and P. J. BACON. "The utilization of heather moorland by territorial Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus." Ibis 143, no. 2 (April 2001): 222–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.2001.tb04478.x.

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Cazau, Marjorie, Mathieu Garel, and Daniel Maillard. "Responses of heather moorland and Mediterranean mouflon foraging to prescribed-burning and cutting." Journal of Wildlife Management 75, no. 4 (May 2011): 967–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.117.

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Hester, Alison J., and Chris Sydes. "Changes in burning of Scottish heather moorland since the 1940s from aerial photographs." Biological Conservation 60, no. 1 (1992): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(92)90795-o.

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Doorenbosch, Marieke, and Jan M. van Mourik. "The impact of ancestral heath management on soils and landscapes: a reconstruction based on paleoecological analyses of soil records in the central and southeastern Netherlands." SOIL 2, no. 3 (July 4, 2016): 311–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-311-2016.

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Abstract. The evolution of heathlands during the Holocene has been registered in various soil records. Paleoecological analyses of these records enable reconstruction of the changing economic and cultural management of heaths and the consequences for landscape and soils. Heaths are characteristic components of cultural landscape mosaics on sandy soils in the Netherlands. The natural habitat of heather species was moorland. At first, natural events like forest fires and storms caused small-scale forest degradation; in addition on that, the forest degradation accelerated due to cultural activities like forest grazing, wood cutting, and shifting cultivation. Heather plants invaded degraded forest soils, and heaths developed. People learned to use the heaths for economic and cultural purposes. The impact of the heath management on landscape and soils was registered in soil records of barrows, drift sand sequences, and plaggic Anthrosols. Based on pollen diagrams of such records we could reconstruct that heaths were developed and used for cattle grazing before the Bronze Age. During the late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, and Iron Age, people created the barrow landscape on the ancestral heaths. After the Iron Age, people probably continued with cattle grazing on the heaths and plaggic agriculture until the early Middle Ages. Severe forest degradation by the production of charcoal for melting iron during the Iron Age till the 6th–7th century and during the 11th–13th century for the trade of wood resulted in extensive sand drifting, a threat to the valuable heaths. The introduction of the deep, stable economy and heath sods digging in the course of the 18th century resulted in acceleration of the rise of plaggic horizons, severe heath degradation, and again extension of sand drifting. At the end of the 19th century heath lost its economic value due to the introduction of chemical fertilizers. The heaths were transformed into "new" arable fields and forests, and due to deep ploughing most soil archives were destroyed. Since AD 1980, the remaining relicts of the ancestral heaths are preserved and restored in the frame of the programs to improve the regional and national geo-biodiversity. Despite the realization of many heath restoration projects during the last decades, the area of the present heaths is just a fraction of the heath areal in AD 1900.

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Hester, A. J., C. H. Gimingham, and J. Miles. "Succession from Heather Moorland to Birch Woodland. III. Seed Availability, Germination and Early Growth." Journal of Ecology 79, no. 2 (June 1991): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2260716.

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Pakeman, R. J., P. D. Hulme, L. Torvell, and J. M. Fisher. "Rehabilitation of degraded dry heather [ Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull] moorland by controlled sheep grazing." Biological Conservation 114, no. 3 (December 2003): 389–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3207(03)00067-3.

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Legg, Colin, G. Matt Davies, and Alan Gray. "Comment on: 'Burning management and carbon sequestration of upland heather moorland in the UK'." Soil Research 48, no. 1 (2010): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr09166c.

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Dodgshon, Robert A., and Gunilla Almered Olsson. "Heather moorland in the Scottish Highlands: the history of a cultural landscape, 1600–1880." Journal of Historical Geography 32, no. 1 (January 2006): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2005.01.002.

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Clarke, J. L., D. Welch, and I. J. Gordon. "The Influence of Vegetation Pattern on the Grazing of Heather Moorland by Red Deer and Sheep. II. The Impact on Heather." Journal of Applied Ecology 32, no. 1 (February 1995): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2404427.

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Walker, Kevin J., Linda Robinson, and Duncan Donald. "Cotula alpina (Asteraceae) naturalised in the British Isles." British & Irish Botany 2, no. 1 (February 26, 2020): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.33928/bib.2020.02.043.

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Cotula alpina (Hook f.) Hook f. is an Australian herb that has been naturalised in Britain since the 1970s and is now locally abundant in parts of northern England and northwest Scotland. Its method of arrival is unknown but it is likely to have originated from gardens and perhaps also from wool shoddy. It appears to be spreading rapidly due to high seed production and effective dispersal by sheep, humans and vehicles and is now locally abundant on moorland tracks and in adjacent acid grassland and heather moorland managed for grouse. Due to its evergreen and mat-forming habit it can outcompete community dominants such as Agrostis capillaris and Festuca ovina in areas where levels of grazing are high. It appears to be well suited to the British climate and is therefore likely to spread into similar habitats in other regions where it could pose a threat to localized species associated with short grassland on acidic soils. Its overall abundance and ability to regenerate rapidly from seed means it is unlikely to be easily controlled or eradicated, although exclusion of grazing may help to reduce its abundance in some areas.

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Johnson, J., and B. G. Merrell. "Practical pasture management in hill and upland systems." BSAP Occasional Publication 18 (January 1994): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263967x00001488.

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AbstractThe imbalance in area of conservation to grazing has resulted in systems which attempt to maximize grazing and minimize winter feeding. This is rendered more difficult by the short growing season and generally poorer quality of indigenous vegetation when compared with, for example, perennial ryegrass and white clover. Recent changes in government policy discourage land improvement and emphasis nowadays concentrates on maximizing use of, for example, moorland whilst at the same time maintaining its longer-term production and environmental quality. Sward height guidelines can be used to optimize production and utilization of sown grassland for sheep and cattle. Information is also available to integrate heather moorland into farming systems, as a result of an increased understanding of grazing preferences. It remains as important as ever to maintain production from the limited area of improved ground, and improvements in perennial ryegrass and white clover varieties can be introduced successfully into hill and upland systems. Change in such systems however is often constrained by both social and economic factors and this needs to be acknowledged if the agricultural emphasis in the hills and uplands is to have proper direction.

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Welch, D. "The floristics of contrasting grazed-down Scottish moorland sites initially dominated by heather (Calluna vulgaris)." New Journal of Botany 3, no. 3 (December 2013): 169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2042349713y.0000000032.

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Simpson, I. A., A. H. Kirkpatrick, L. Scott, J. P. Gill, N. Hanley, and A. J. MacDonald. "Application of a grazing model to predict heather moorland utilization and implications for nature conservation." Journal of Environmental Management 54, no. 3 (November 1998): 215–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jema.1998.0211.

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Bardgett, R. D., J. H. Marsden, and D. C. Howard. "The extent and condition of heather on moorland in the uplands of England and Wales." Biological Conservation 71, no. 2 (1995): 155–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(94)00042-o.

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Pettigrew, Graham W., Valentina Di Vita, Maxine Pettigrew, and Jason S. Gilchrist. "The diel activity pattern of mountain hare ( Lepus timidus ) on managed heather moorland in Scotland." Ecology and Evolution 11, no. 12 (May 2021): 7106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7512.

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McLean, B. M. L., O. D. Davies, J. B. Griffiths, D. E. Evans, and A. Clarke. "Short-term impact of grazing prescriptions on cattle performance." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science 2005 (2005): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752756200011455.

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Livestock farming is a traditional and important contributor to the rural economy in the hills and uplands of the UK. However, significant areas of the uplands have seen a decline in the condition of heath and mire habitats and the loss of dwarf shrubs as a result of over-grazing. Attempts to halt the decline and improve the condition of upland heath and mire habitats have been undertaken by the introduction of agri-environment schemes. In the main, such schemes rely on the reduction of sheep numbers. However, recent Defra funded research (LS1508) has indicated that this can result in dominance by competitive and/or unpalatable species such as purple moor-grass (Molinia caerulea ) or mat-grass (Nardus stricta ), leading in time to a reduction in the physical and financial performance of the flock. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of cattle grazing on Nardus stricta dominated pasture on sheep and cattle performance. It is being carried out as part of a wider project to determine environmentally sustainable and economically viable grazing systems for heather moorland.

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Farage, Peter, Andrew S. Ball, Terry J. McGenity, Corrine Whitby, and Jules Pretty. "Reply to Comment on: 'Burning management and carbon sequestration of upland heather moorland in the UK'." Soil Research 48, no. 1 (2010): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr09166r.

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Grant, Sheila A., and Helen M. Armstrong. "Grazing ecology and the conservation of heather moorland: the development of models as aids to management." Biodiversity and Conservation 2, no. 1 (February 1993): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00055105.

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BROOKER, R. W., D. SCOTT, S. C. F. PALMER, and E. SWAINE. "Transient facilitative effects of heather on Scots pine along a grazing disturbance gradient in Scottish moorland." Journal of Ecology 94, no. 3 (April 10, 2006): 637–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01129.x.

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Howells, Gwyneth, and D. J. A. Brown. "The Loch Fleet Project, SW Scotland." Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 78, no. 4 (1987): 241–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263593300011172.

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ABSTRACTLoch Fleet is an upland loch in SW Scotland, distant from significant local pollution, and unlikely to be affected by changes during the five-year project. The underlying geology is granitic. The 111 ha catchment is 90% moorland, dominated by heather and flying bent; 10% is planted with conifers.Rainfall is approximately 2200 mm per year, predominantly from W and SW. More than half of rain events are pH>4·7; mean pH is 4·84 (1985). Marine salts are the major solutes. Deposition of acidity is about 0·1 g H+ m−2 per year, about twice that of eastern Scotland; deposition of non-seasalt sulphur is 1·6 g S m−2 per year. Soils are shallow and comprise organic peats, peaty gleys, and peaty rankers; base saturation is 3–19%. Soils (pH 2·5 to 4·6) are most acid in the forested area.The loch is more acid (×5) than bulk deposition; additional acidity is mobilised from soils by the predominantly (>90%) superficial drainage. Moorland drainage dominates; that from the forest is more acid, but very variable in quantity and composition.Catchment interventions in 1986 and 1987 are designed to alter the chemistry of drainage waters and the loch, so that the fishery can be restored. In addition to the work reported, extensive soils, sediment and biological investigations are underway.

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Hester, A. J., J. Miles, and C. H. Gimingham. "Succession from Heather Moorland to Birch Woodland. I. Experimental Alteration of Specific Environmental Conditions in the Field." Journal of Ecology 79, no. 2 (June 1991): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2260714.

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Salt, C. A., R. W. Mayes, P. M. Colgrove, and C. S. Lamb. "The Effects of Season and Diet Composition on the Radiocaesium Intake by Sheep Grazing on Heather Moorland." Journal of Applied Ecology 31, no. 1 (February 1994): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2404605.

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Welch, D., and D. Scott. "Studies in the Grazing of Heather Moorland in Northeast Scotland. VI.20-Year Trends in Botanical Composition." Journal of Applied Ecology 32, no. 3 (August 1995): 596. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2404656.

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Burch, Jane. "The relationship of bryophyte regeneration to heather canopy height following moorland burning on the North York Moors." Journal of Bryology 30, no. 3 (September 2008): 208–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174328208x322233.

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Usher, Michael B. "Assessment of conservation values: The use of water traps to assess the arthropod communities of heather moorland." Biological Conservation 53, no. 3 (1990): 191–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(90)90085-4.

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Hanley, Nick, Hilary Kirkpatrick, Ian Simpson, David Oglethorpe, and Angus Macdonald. "Ecological-economic modelling of the conservation of threatened habitats: heather moorland in the Northern Isles of Scotland." Biodiversity and Conservation 5, no. 10 (October 1996): 1207–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00051572.

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Clarke, J. L., D. Welch, and I. J. Gordon. "The Influence of Vegetation Pattern on the Grazing of Heather Moorland by Red Deer and Sheep. I. The Location of Animals on Grass/Heather Mosaics." Journal of Applied Ecology 32, no. 1 (February 1995): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2404426.

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Roberts, G., and S. B. Crane. "The effects of clear-felling established forestry on stream-flow losses from the Hore sub-catchment." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 1, no. 3 (September 30, 1997): 477–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-1-477-1997.

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Abstract. The effects on streamflow of clear-felling a substantial part of the established forestry within the Hore sub-catchment at Plynlimon were estimated by a regression comparison of pre-and post-felling rainfall/runoff relationships and by a model based on evapotranspiration estimates from plot studies of established forestry and heather moorland. Increases in streamflow were predicted using both methods, with those using the regression method being substantially larger than those using the model. The largest increases using the regression method occurred about 5 years after the end of felling, and amounted to 10.5% of the measured annual flow. On a seasonal basis, the largest increases using the regression method occurred during the latter half of the year, whilst the model predicted the largest increases during the summer months. These patterns are explained in terms of forest transpiration and canopy interception.

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HARTLEY, S. E., and R. J. MITCHELL. "Manipulation of nutrients and grazing levels on heather moorland: changes in Calluna dominance and consequences for community composition." Journal of Ecology 93, no. 5 (October 2005): 990–1004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01025.x.

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Hester, A. J., J. Miles, and C. H. Gimingham. "Succession from Heather Moorland to Birch Woodland. II. Growth and Competition Between Vaccinium Myrtillus, Deschampsia Flexuosa and Agrostis Capillaris." Journal of Ecology 79, no. 2 (June 1991): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2260715.

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Welch, D. "Studies in the Grazing of Heather Moorland In North-East Scotland. IV. Seed Dispersal and Plant Establishment in Dung." Journal of Applied Ecology 22, no. 2 (August 1985): 461. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2403178.

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Robertson, Peter A., Kirsty J. Park, and Andrew F. Barton. "Loss of heather Calluna vulgaris moorland in the Scottish uplands: the role of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus management." Wildlife Biology 7, no. 1 (January 2001): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2981/wlb.2001.004.

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Tharme, A. P., R. E. Green, D. Baines, I. P. Bainbridge, and M. O'Brien. "The effect of management for red grouse shooting on the population density of breeding birds on heather-dominated moorland." Journal of Applied Ecology 38, no. 2 (April 2001): 439–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00597.x.

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