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 to researchers and other stakeholders. The database provides a searchable, updatable, and comprehensive collection of research findings, covering studies from January 2000 to October 2023. This database supported a review that used a comprehensive evidence synthesis approach, combining expert and stakeholder input with peer-reviewed studies and grey literature. The goal of the review was to collate evidence to encourage researchers, civic societies, and policymakers to adopt an unbiased, evidence-based approach toward the future sustainable management and improved planning of Irish peatlands.

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 : https://www.epa.ie/publications/

Recommended citation: 

Renou-Wilson, F., D. Wilson, and K. Flood. 2024. Peat-Hub-Ireland Database Version 1.0. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.13911873

爱尔兰泥炭地研究泥炭枢纽数据库（Peat Hub Ireland Database）是一款免费开放的资源，可为研究人员及其他利益相关方提供爱尔兰泥炭地相关研究数据。该数据库提供可检索、可更新且内容全面的研究成果集合，涵盖2000年1月至2023年10月期间的全部相关研究。本数据库支撑了一项采用综合证据合成方法的综述研究，该方法将专家与利益相关方意见、同行评议研究及灰色文献（grey literature）相结合。该综述的核心目标是整合各类证据，以鼓励研究人员、公民社会组织及政策制定者采用无偏倚的循证方法，推动爱尔兰泥炭地的未来可持续管理与规划优化。

Peat Hub Ireland（PHI）数据库旨在提升参与爱尔兰及全球范围内泥炭地研究的研究人员与更广泛利益相关群体的认知水平。除动态更新的泥炭地术语词汇表外，该数据库还可帮助研究人员更好地理解其他学科的研究成果，打破学术壁垒，推动多学科研究见解的融合。此外，该数据库能够帮助研究人员避免重复开展研究，提升对既往研究与成熟方法论的认知，基于现有数据识别研究空白与新项目方向，并促进泥炭地科学共同体内部的协作研究。

该数据库总计包含900条记录，划分为以下主题领域：生物多样性、土壤、气候变化、水资源、考古与古环境、技术与制图、社会与文化、管理、栽培介质/基质（Growing Media/Substrate）、政策与法律。数据库内的每条记录均配有唯一标识编号，且可通过作者、出版年份、主题、子主题、标题、DOI/URL以及引文来源进行检索。详细信息请参阅元数据（Metadata）。

您可在官网www.ucd.ie/peat-hub-ireland及爱尔兰环境保护署（Environmental Protection Agency, EPA）最终报告中获取泥炭枢纽爱尔兰项目的可复现方法论及其他成果，相关报告链接为https://www.epa.ie/publications/。

推荐引用格式：
Renou-Wilson, F., D. Wilson, 及 K. Flood. 2024. 泥炭枢纽爱尔兰数据库（Peat Hub Ireland Database）版本1.0. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.13911873