sentences:  As well as being an important habitat for wildlife, Flanders Moss also plays a key role for carbon sequestration acting as a carbon sink.The bog is composed of an underlayer of sphagnum mosses, on top of which grows heather, cross-leaved heath and cotton-grass.Core samples from the peat show that there were very few trees on the bog for most of its life, however trees and scrub have spread over around 200 ha