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The study I am doing seeks to investigate the effect of soil pH on plant diversity in peatlands but it also investigates the connection between soil pH and plant diversity of peatlands to land-use changes. Some of the processes that could be at play in this study are water-logging and soil composition. It could be that the plants that are growing closer to the pathway are not able to grow further into the peatland due to water-logging or soil composition. It might be that the soil that was brought in to build the pathway created a better environment for these specific plants or perhaps the soil that was brought in even carried some viable seeds with it.
The keywords that I would use to summarize my research would be peatland land-use changes, plant diversity and soil pH.
