The major project outputs are expected to be:

The project will deliver:

(i) the findings of the literature review (for Defra),

(ii) the results from the field experimental manipulations and the resulting relationships between vegetation and hydrology and carbon stocks and fluxes,

(iii) a basic cost-benefit analysis of the feasibility of the investigated restoration management strategies (for Defra), and

(iii) a model prediction of the long-term effects of the different management strategies on vegetation dynamics and water and carbon fluxes.

The following link provide the downloads to the 5-year report for Defra and associated documents (2019):

• Annex A Lit Review_final version August 2017.pdf 

• Defra BD5104 Final Report October 2018 (update Mar19v.1).pdf 

• Stakeholders Workshop 2013 report.docx  

All BD5104 (Final Report to Defra) documents (including the peer-review of the Defra report) are available  here .

The following links provides the downloads to the 10-year PAG report (2023); the report was also peer-reviewed three times in collaboration with Defra:

• The 10-year PAG report 

• The short summary of the 10-year report 

• The full summary of the 10-year report (with a foreword by emeritus Prof Rob Marrs)

If you experience difficulty in accessing any of the documents, please contact Andreas Heinemeyer (andreas.heinemeyer@york.ac.uk) for access to any documents from the reports.