So valuable data (long-term rainfall!) but so difficult to secure funding for maintaining and servicing long-term monitoring stations. In my case, the @ect-uk.bsky.social came to the rescue several times (thanks you!).
peatland-es-uk.york.ac.uk/field-measur...
field-scale wide drip water irrigator spread across a desiccated maize field in south west France with woodland in the background
use all the farming practice tools to head towards 'nature positive' agriculture
not just the obvious agroecological ones (see full text of Target 10 under the Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at COP15)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#farming #nature 🧪
Shrubification in response to warming is well known to occur around the globe - also on peatlands. A very likely boost to heather biomass in the UK uplands (quite a few papers on that are published)!
Bogs are getting drier & rewetting has limits & fires are an if not when. Just saying ...
update on the experiment my colleague John Harte started almost 30 years ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A meadow with yellow flowers. Hills are in the distance.
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York!!!
And what a good spell of weather you picked (again I think!). Enjoy 🤠
I have decided to stop reviewing papers for journals I cannot access anymore via our University. It is just crazy what is expected from academics vs what we get in return.
Such a joy to listen to whilst thinking about peatlands & fire! Spanish Baroque at its finest I'd say!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8s...
🚨 Our new peatlands paper "Pan‐Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming" published today in Global Change Biology, led by Josie Handley.
Open access and free to all: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
what I do - my specialist skill hosting environmental and rural in-person events robyorke.co.uk/track-ii-com...
#Environmental #Dialogue
And what is really concerning is the greater increase in night-time temperatures. You know what that means ...
That is an interesting consideration ... wondering if there are any data for the UK. But now it is the weekend 🤗
Hi Matt, yes nice dataset 🫠.
Many people don't realise how much commitment & time it takes to maintain things like this - you certainly know 😇.
The light increase is a good question. I think it is related to less cloud cover (longer high pressure system presence) but could also be due to contrails.
And these are the monthly values over time (14 years of data!). Quite proud of this graph!
These data will allow us to model carbon fluxes (photosynthesis, respiration) and methane emissions and thus estimating the net carbon balance over time (also considering stream flow C-export as DOC and POC).
First goal achieved!
2012-2025 climate data for the Peatland-ES-UK
@ect-uk.bsky.social site!
Not looking great for future bog 'health'.
Getting much warmer, slightly drier yet brighter over time; example for Mossdale (wettest site)
Impacts need to compare apples with apples (not oranges; i.e., unmanaged locations elsewhere are different for different reasons!), over long enough time (ecological impacts rather than disturbance) and large enough scale (at several sites and landscape-scale as impacts differ and get diluted).
The @ect-uk.bsky.social support came to the rescue many times. Thanks 🤗
It is so difficult to find long-term funding for such studies, although it is such long-term studies which best inform @naturalengland.bsky.social evidence on which to base sound policy. 📖
This @ect-uk.bsky.social post is so nice to see!
I am immensely proud to have managed to lead such an exciting, holistic and well-design project over nearly 15 years.
Hi Mike (and co-authors). This is an absolutely brilliant paper. Read it quickly once, so need to read again, but it is so spot on and so much needed! Wonderful. Confirms a lot of my observations and modelling 😀.
Happy Peaty Christmas!
Today's background music during peaty literature reading (with some fire added to it!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3O...
Just listen to 25 min in [ Francesco Usper - Sonata 8 ] ... fantastic trombone/sackbut team!
I also note that the @moorlandassoc.bsky.social actually acknowledges complexity:
"Impacts are mixed, site-specific & scale-dependent", which I think correctly reflects our conclusions, statements a the evidence base.
Key is this:
"There is certainly no evidence to allow a generalisation of overall negative impacts, even on Sphagnum moss (Ref); the same review also points out that often reported negative impacts are short-lived and need to be seen as part of a patchwork across larger scales (catchment/landscape)"
Hi, yes, there are varied responses, but it is important to consider space and time as well as the generic aspect.
Overall, the summary table statement is:
"Ill-defined, confounding factors, unclear and/or not enough data to support such generic statement, scale (time and space) dependent".
Who can share a pdf for this #peatland paper by Tallis:
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
Growth and degradation of British and Irish blanket mires
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Very curious to watch this webinar later. Also, what a tribute to the creative power of a pint in a good pub!
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
Whilst a lot of what Bill Gates wrote in his memo makes a certain amount of sense, his main point that short term emissions reduction is not the priority is based on flawed and out of date data.
I’ve scribbled on his graph below to add a very important line - reality.
#climatechange #acceleration
JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
Please repost!
More carbon fluxes to be processed.
More good music required:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXg...
Who would not want to play in this beautiful surrounding?
Fluxes, here we come!
