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Project Code [22/FFP-P/11490]
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Project title
A new isotopic method to reveal blanket bog drought resilience: DRYPEAT (Deuterium-excess Reconstruction to Yield Peatland Evaporation, Aridity, and Transpiration)
Primary Funding Agency
Taighde �ireann-Research Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Lead Organisation
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
Lead Applicant
Not listed
Project Abstract
Blanket bogs are critical carbon and biodiversity reserves for Ireland, but the drier future brought by climate change threatens their existence. If we know what drought intensities bogs have survived in the past, we will gain a better prediction of bogs' future survival. Bog plants preserve drought signals in their cellular chemistry, and we will learn through DRYPEAT how to translate this chemistry into a drought record by monitoring a modern Wicklow Mountains bog. Then, by studying bog plants preserved for thousands of years within peat, we will reconstruct a drought history to better know what droughts bogs can survive.
Grant Approved
�690,535.00
Research Hub
Climate Change
Research Theme
1. Carbon Stocks, GHG Emissions, Sinks and Management Options
Initial Projected Completion Date
31/07/2028