Ashby✉, Mark Andrew https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8291-7490
Heinemeyer, Andreas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-2466
Article History
Received: 13 October 2020
Accepted: 6 January 2021
First Online: 5 May 2021
Declarations
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: MA, AH and their respective institutions fully consent to the publication of this manuscript.
: MA has provided independent ecological advice and evidence synthesis services to the Moorland Association since April 2019 and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust since October 2019. AH has written this response independently during the time of a second funding phase (in collaboration with MA) of the Peatland-ES-UK project. In order to maintain full transparency regarding any perceivable conflicts of interest, the author would like to acknowledge that phase two of the Peatland-ES-UK project has received funding from several groups: University of York; Natural Environmental Research Council; Natural England; The Moorland Association; United Utilities; Yorkshire Water Services; The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust; Law Family Charitable Foundation; The British Association for Shooting and Conservation.