Abstract
The West of Ireland is one of the world’s richest wetland landscapes. Many parts of the region are cloaked in reedswamps, bogs, fens, and turloughs, often within complex mosaics created by varied climate, hydrology, and geology. The Burren (from the Irish ‘Boíreann’ or rocky place) is a stark, glaciated limestone plateau in the far west of Ireland that is one of the most distinctive and diverse landscapes in northwest Europe. Despite a hyperoceanic climate with over 200 precipitation days a year, extensive limestone and high soil pH limit the dominance of Sphagnum and thus the extent of Atlantic blanket bog, which characterizes much of west Ireland.
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