Publications by authors named "Emma Shuttleworth"
India is famous for her badlands. These vast, intensely degraded landscapes occur extensively across Central and Western India, wherein they have had several adverse effects on both environment and society. However, accurate information on their current spatial extents, as well as the spatial distribution and severity of gully erosion elsewhere in the country was hitherto lacking.
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- Peatlands are important wetland areas that help store carbon and support various plants and animals, but they are being damaged by human activities.
- Scientists have made progress in restoring peatlands, but we still need to learn how tiny living things in the soil (microbes) help these ecosystems work and recover from problems.
- To improve peatland restoration, we need to study microbial communities better, create tools to monitor their health, and work with different experts to develop effective restoration practices.
Peatlands provide a range of ecosystem services but are sensitive to changes in climate and land-use, and many peatlands globally are degraded. We analyse a large-scale, unique and diverse dataset, collected over 15 years, as part of major landscape scale blanket peat restoration projects in the south Pennines, UK. Trajectories of ecosystem change after restoration were assessed by measuring key ecosystem responses including: vegetation cover and indicator species; water table, runoff, and water quality.
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