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Moor House National Nature Reserve in the North Pennines has been a site of scientific research going back 50 years. Weather records show a gradual warming over the last 50 years and a dramatic decline in winter snow cover. This has started to alter some of the specialised arctic plant communities and has also affected the carbon budget of the upland blanket peat bog. Warming temperatures have resulted in increased plant productivity and has lead to colonisation of once bare areas of the peat bog. This picture shows research by Dr Jeff Warburton who is measuring wind erosion on the peat bog. When the markers were first placed they were in bare peat but have subsequently been covered by recolonising cotton grass
Moor house
Teesdale
Upper teesdale
National Nature reserve
Nature Reserve
sign
Pennines
north Pennines
UK
Cumbria
peat bog
blanket peat bog
peat
habitat
moorland
upland
science
research
records
scientific research
carbon
C02
carbon dioxide
greenhouse gas
methane
measure
measurement
carbon budget
vegetation
monitor
monitoring
monitoring station
vegetation cover
recolonise
colonisation
change
changeing
productivity
plant productivity
compare
comparison
history
cotton grass
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