![]() Healthy peatlands have many benefits - from supporting wildlife communities and locking up atmospheric carbon to reducing flood risk and improving water quality. This can take place over many thousands of years, with peat becoming several metres deep. This leads to the accumulation of organic material, or peat. As sphagnum plants grow upwards, the lower parts of the plant die but do not decompose very quickly if the ground is waterlogged. Sphagnum mosses are hugely important in the uplands due to the unique environments these plants help to create.
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