Peat-Hub-Ireland database is available to download from Zenodo. Direct Link below:
(opens in a new window)10.5281/zenodo.13908702.
How to cite the database:
Renou-Wilson, F., Wilson, D., & Flood, K. (2024). Peat-Hub-Ireland Database Version 1.0 (1.0) [Data set]. Peat-Hub-Ireland, UCD, Ireland. (opens in a new window)DOI: (opens in a new window)10.5281/zenodo.13908702
Peat-Hub-Ireland Database Version 1.0
The Peat Hub Ireland Database of Research on Irish Peatlands is a freely accessible resource that makes research data on Irish peatlands available for use by researchers and other stakeholders. The database provides a searchable, updatable and comprehensive evidence base for sustainable management of peatlands in Ireland. The evidence base draws on a thorough review of Irish peatland research focusing on literature from 2000 to 2023. The review embraces a broad evidence synthesis framework that incorporates expert and stakeholder knowledge with peer-reviewed and grey literature to represent the wide knowledge base involved in peatland research and management in Ireland.
The PHI database aims to raise awareness amongst researchers and the wider stakeholder community engaging in peatlands research in Ireland and further afield. Alongside the ‘living’ glossary of peatland terminology, the database will also help researchers gain a greater understanding of work from other disciplines to overcome academic silos and facilitate incorporation of insights from a range of disciplines. It will also help researchers avoid duplication of effort, raise awareness of previous research and established methodologies, build upon existing data to identify research gaps and new projects, and encourage collaborative work within the peatland scientific community.
The database contains a total of 900 records organised into the following thematic areas: Biodiversity, Soil, Climate Change, Water, Archaeology and Palaeo-environment, Technology and Mapping, Society and Culture, Management, Growing Media/Substrate, Policy and Law. Each record in the database is given a unique ID number and is searchable by Author, Publication year, Theme, Sub-Topic, Title, DOI/URL and the Source of Citation. See Metatdata for details.
You can find the replicable Methodology and other outputs of the Peat Hub Ireland project on the website; www.ucd.ie/peat-hub-ireland and in the EPA final report : (opens in a new window)https://www.epa.ie/publications/
Of note, we found some literature are still missing despite having done a manual search of reports from governmental institutions (EPA, NPWS).
Please send your publications (pre-Oct 2023) to (opens in a new window)Florence.Renou@ucd.ie within the next few weeks.
It is also critical that older publications (<2000) be digitised starting with state organisations.
We hope the next iterations of the database will fill these gaps.