blanket bog
featherbed bog
blanket mire

Blanket bogs are the more widespread of the two types.

Blanket bogs, cliffs and river habitats are found in the park.

The area's biological interest includes breeding birds and blanket bog.

The area is mainly blanket bog, with many small lakes and streams throughout.

This wild area of uplands is covered largely with blanket bog.

Forestry has devoured most of the blanket bog in Britain.

In this area staff are starting to restore the Migneint blanket bog.

Blanket bog and heather moorland change colour with the seasons.

Extreme oceanic blanket bog dominates the site in its inland areas.

A notable feature of the physical geography around Cleggan is blanket bog.

Blanket bog in the area is the most south-easterly occurrence in Europe.

There are Atlantic salt flats which fringe on the blanket bog, particularly in the lower reaches of the bay.

Much of inland Erris is covered with blanket bog.

The habitat here alternates between blanket bog and upland heath.

Here, the heathland gives way to wetter blanket bog.

The lake's edge has reedbed, herb fen and blanket bog.

The country's blanket bogs, with their rare mosses and sundews, are under particular threat.

The mountain blanket bogs formed around 4,000 years ago as a result of a combination of climate change and human activity.

However there are areas of peat land, particularly to the south, where a blanket bog is located on the border with Kilcummin.

Blanket bogs formed on sites where Neolithic farmers cleared trees for farming.

Drainage schemes have affected valley mires and blanket bogs.

Millions on flood defences or thousands on blanket bogs?

The blanket bog is one of the largest expanses of peatland left in Europe.

Technology was derived to mechanically cut and remove layers of peat from blanket bogs.

Its blanket bogs have caused it to be designated as a Special Area of Conservation.

Montpelier is the closest to Dublin city of the group of mountains - along with Killakee, Featherbed Bog, Kippure, Seefingan, Corrig, Seahan, Ballymorefinn, Carrigeenoura and Slievenabawnogue - that form the ridge that bounds the Glenasmole valley.

Blanket bog or blanket mire, also known as featherbed bog, is an area of peatland, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses of undulating ground.

Blanket mire is particularly sensitive to climate change and this location has consequently been used on a number of occasions for scientific research.

Scirpus cespitosus - Eriophorum vaginatum blanket mire (Lewis and Harris).

The site has a diverse mix of habitats, mainly dry heath, with wet heath and blanket mire in areas that are poorly drained.

The site is nationally important for its south-western lowland heath communities and for transitions from ancient semi-natural woodland through upland heath to blanket mire.

The predominant vegetation is blanket mire, in which heather, Calluna vulgaris, and hare's-tail cottongrass, Eriophorum vaginatum, are co-dominant.

NVC community M20 (Eriophorum vaginatum raised and blanket mire) is one of the mire communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.

Where steep slopes have inhibited peat formation, the blanket mire gives way to dry heath, in which heather, wavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, and bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus, are the dominant species.

Cairnsmore of Fleet is home to many of the typical habitats of upland Britain, such as grasslands of purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea), Calluna vulgaris and Vaccinium myrtillus heaths and localised blanket mire with Trichophorum and cotton-grass (Eriophorum).

Blanket bog or blanket mire, also known as featherbed bog, is an area of peatland, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses of undulating ground.