Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage

8.5 Monitoring nutrient reduction
Direct measurement of changes in nutrient regime following application of any of
the techniques described above is likely to be expensive and is likely to require a
fairly sophisticated sampling design over several years. Vegetation will respond to
reduced enrichment and hence in general, indirect assessment of changes resulting
from nutrient reduction techniques by vegetation and habitat condition monitoring
is favoured, which will need to be undertaken for reporting purposes on all statutory
sites. Further details of monitoring are provided in Section 10: Monitoring to Inform
Fen Management.
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